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In White Lies, the author narrates a social story of being different through two fifth graders—Arpi and Conie. Arpi is a Lebanese girl who has pronunciation problems and always get corrected by her teacher. She believes that her pronunciation problems make her different from other, and she is upset by the differences. However, the arrival of new girl named Connie cheers her up because Connie is albino. The arrival of Connie make Arpi less different from others. Unlike Arpi, Connie always get verbally bullied. Even though she pretends to be indifferent, she actually cares about it. However, things change when Connie announces that her dad work in a candy factory. After she said he dad can get the candy for free, all of the bullied actions instantly

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