num_pages: 304
description: Frederick Frederickson has a food-chain theory about life. There are lions like the school bully. Gazelles like the bullied kids. There are meerkats and the fleas that live on the butts of meerkats. Frederick's a flea.Fifth grade is off to a terrible start when Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp for troublesome boys. His fellow troop matesNosebleed Specs The Professor and little-yet-lethal Ant Biteare terrifying. But in between trust-building exercises and midnight escape attempts a tenuous friendship grows between them. Which is lucky because a Category 5 hurricane is coming and everyone will have to work togetherlions and fleas aliketo survive!
language: English
title: Lions and Liars
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)