# One of Us Is Lying

**Author:** Karen M. McManus
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 2014
**Page count:** 360
**Genre:** Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9781524714680`
**ISBN-10:** `1524714682`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/one-of-us-is-lying
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident.

## Themes

- mystery and detective stories
- murder, fiction
- schools, fiction
- murder

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2019-2020 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2019-2020 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2019-2020 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2019-2020 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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