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Wynne101
Since: Aug, 2010
DescendantOfShinobi
Since: Apr, 2010

Okay, hope you can help me with this one. I've Googled every possible combination of the elements I remember with no luck. This was a children's/young adult book, probably aimed at girls, about a girl who moves to a new school and starts making up stories to impress the kids there. Among other things, she tells the kids that she's from Hollywood, California, but when caught in the lie, she says that it's a _different_ Hollywood from the one where movies are made - someone asks her if it's "above or below the elbow," and she says "above" without knowing what they're talking about. She also tells the kids that her father plays for the Washington Redskins, thinking that the team's based in the state and not the city. Sound familiar to anyone? It's driving me batty.