Fibbed - Elizabeth Agyemang
Nana, an American girl, is in trouble at home and school because she saw a troupe of squirrels steal her teacher's toupee and no one believes her? Yeah, that sounds pretty dumb, and it sets the tone for the rest. Nana is sent to stay for the summer with her family and Nigeria, where she is similarly branded a liar, even though her grandmother is well versed in magical story telling. Eventually the kids discover that white people are destroying the village by sucking out all the magic, and they are enlisted by Ananse to help. It's all a bit disjointed, with forced, stilted resolutions (summed up as, paraphrased, I see now that even though they called me a liar, I know they were trying to help me [??]), and the worst, flattest, most incompetent art this side of an elementary school. [1.5]
