# 102 Days of Lying About Lauren

**Author:** Maura Jortner
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Page count:** 227
**Genre:** Juvenile Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780823453627`
**ISBN-10:** `0823453626`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/102-days-of-lying-about-lauren
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After being abandoned by her mother in a most unusual place, a defiant heroine sticks to her plan for staying hidden—even though getting caught could mean saving her life. Twelve-year-old Mouse calls an amusement park home. Nobody notices her, and that's the way she likes it. Mouse sweeps the streets and wears a uniform she “borrowed” and sleeps on the top floor of the Haunted House of Horrors. She knows which security guards to avoid, eats the bagel left out each morning for the Ghost of Summer (a popular theme park legend), and even has the taco guy convinced that her lunch is paid for. She has her special hiding methods down to a science. But one morning, a girl named Cat comes looking for Lauren Suszek. Cat notices her, and Mouse doesn’t like it. Mouse cannot let this nosy pest find ou

## Where this book is assigned

### South Carolina Junior Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Junior Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-26 nominee (grades 6-8), read + voted by South Carolina students; nominee list via studySC / SC State Library + SCASL](https://www.scasl.net/junior-book-award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Junior Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-26 nominee (grades 6-8), read + voted by South Carolina students; nominee list via studySC / SC State Library + SCASL](https://www.scasl.net/junior-book-award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Junior Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-26 nominee (grades 6-8), read + voted by South Carolina students; nominee list via studySC / SC State Library + SCASL](https://www.scasl.net/junior-book-award)

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