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Staff Pick--"Can a book be mysterious, riveting and fun all at the same time? This is all those things and more! Sage is a street-smart orphan who is suddenly plucked from his familiar life of hand-to-mouth existence by a passing nobleman who has ulterior motives for wanting a boy who can be trained to impersonate the kingdom's murdered prince.
     Three boys are found who resemble the prince, but only one will successfully make it through the training to be presented at court as the real heir to the throne-- the other two boys will die. The farther the training progresses, the more apparent it becomes that deceit and treachery are just the tip of the iceberg, and Sage is caught in a trap far more urgent and important than anyone could imagine. Grades 7 and up."--Nancy

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Synopsis of The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen:
In this first book in a remarkable trilogy, an orphan is forced into a twisted game with deadly stakes.

Choose to lie...or choose to die.

In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage's rivals have their own agendas as well.

As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner's sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together.

An extraordinary adventure filled with danger and action, lies and deadly truths that will have readers clinging to the edge of their seats.

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