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//The Lying Game// by Sara Shepard

__**Summary:**__ //The Lying Game// is a young adult fiction book written by Sara Shepard. In the book, Sutton Mercer is dead...just no one except Sutton knows that yet. She doesn't remember much of anything about life. All she knows is that she is stuck following the life of her long lost identical twin, Emma. Emma soon learns of her sister existence and journeys to Phoenix, Arizona in pursuit of meeting her. Emma quickly discovers that Sutton is missing and that her only chance of discovering what happened to her is to assume the identity of Sutton Mercer. Emma is introduced to all of Sutton's friends, family, and darkest secrets. It is up to Emma to piece it all together. All the while, all Sutton can do is just sit aside and watch as Emma figures out what led to her death.

**__"About the Author":__ ** Sara Shepard is a New York University graduate and went to Brooklyn College and got her MFA in Creative Writing. She has been writing all her life including partnership writing with her sister. Also, she currently lives in Tuscon, Arizona with her husband and three dogs.

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**__Social Issue Relevance:__**

//The Lying Game// focuses on the issues of lying. The main character, Emma, takes over the life of her twin sister and lies to almost everyone about it. Throughout the story you see the consequences Emma has to deal with because of her decisions.

Lying is an act that has become a common recurrence in every day life. In the Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology by Robert S. Feldman, it states that 60 percent of people lied at least once during a 10-minute conversation and told an average of two to three lies. The type of lies even varied by gender. "Women were more likely to lie to make the person they were talking to feel good, while men lied most often to make themselves look better," Feldman said. The amount of lies told by the two genders was the same though. With lying becoming a practice of everyday life, the truth is becoming harder to recognize. For more information on this topic click [|here].

LeTourneau, Nicole. "UMass Researcher Finds Most People Lie in Everyday Conversation." //EurekAlert! - Science News//. 10 June 2002. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. .

**__Dramatization:__ ** 1) Sutton Mercer/ Emma I would use Zooey Deschanel because she has a look that can go between sweet and self involved and the types of roles she has had in the past very defiantly match Emma's personality.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2)Ethan-//Emma's confidant// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">I would use Keggan Allen because he has this deep look to him that I think the Ethan character would need.

**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">__About the Reader:__ ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">My name is Joanna Dooley. I am a fourteen year old, singer and songwriting, high school student. In my free time I like to play the piano. Music has always been a major part of my life and I have a love for anything artsy and creative. I also have a passion for ice cream. When I have the chance I prefer to read young adult fiction.