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K-3
Illustrated by
Robin Preiss Glasser
&
Ted Enik.
While working on a report about her great-grandparents, Nancy liberally embellishes the truth. She must then right her wrong before her grandfather finds out. Though there's some heavy-handedness, Nancy's fans will giggle as her imagination carries her--and her whole family history--away. Curlicue-heavy pictures illustrate Nancy's story. "Fancy Words" (ancestors, exaggerate) are defined in an appended glossary.