Princess K.i.m. and the Lie That Grew (Av2 Fiction Readalong)

Kim wants the kids at her new school to like her, so she tells a teeny, tiny, bitty lie. She says her name is really "K. I. M."--for "Katherine Isabella Marguerite"--and that she comes from a royal family!  Pretty soon all the students know there is a princess in the school.  Kim wears her golden tiara from dance class and a big fancy ring she won at the arcade.  Her little lie grows and grows. When a classmate invites her to a birthday party, Kim says she can't go because her grandmother is coming to visit. But she had told the kids her grandmother was a queen. Now they all want to meet the queen. Kim is in a real bind; her lie has grown too big and it's about ready to explode!