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Name: The Lie Tree
Author: Frances Hardinge
Year: 2015
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Genres/categories: Fantasy, Young adult, Historical fiction, Mystery, Fiction

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature in 2016.
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction in 2016.
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year award in 2015.

The leaves were cold and slightly clammy. There was no mistaking them. She had seen their likeness painstakingly sketched in her father's journal. This was his greatest secret, his treasure and his undoing. The Tree of Lies. Now it was hers, and the journey he had never finished stretched out before her.

When Faith's father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, she is determined to untangle the truth from the lies. Searching through his belongings for clues, she discovers a strange tree. A tree that feeds off whispered lies and bears fruit that reveals hidden secrets.

But as Faith's untruths spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter...
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