Each themed chapter has three sections. Each section describes a living creature related to the chapter's theme (such as plants, animals or humans), its habitat, what it eats, what makes it unique, etc. Photos and graphics add to the text. The kicker? One of the sections in each chapter is false. Readers must use critical thinking skills, background information and research to figure out which is the lie. Or they can just find out in the back of the book. A good tool to teach youth that not everything they read or hear is true!

Two Truths and A Lie: It's Alive! presents nine chapters of three stories each about plants, animals and humans where each story seems a little crazy but only one is a lie! Each story is backed up with sources and pictures and might even be sprinkled with some truths making some stories very difficult to see through.

This was a very fun book to read with middle school aged children. After learning about certain topics, we would read the three stories in a corresponding chapter and have a great discussion in trying to decipher which story was the lie. Our favorite group of stories was the very first one which contained stories of a human-shaped root, an entire forest made up of only one tree and plant communication. The only thing that I would have prefered is if the answers were directly after each section instead of all together at the end of the book, since this made it easy to see the false story for the next section. These stories were a fun way to engage kids and have them do some critical thinking, can't wait for the next one!

This book was received for free in return for an honest review. ( )