This month’s book feature is the Liars Society series by Alyson Gerber. The Liars Society was published in 2024 and the sequel, The Liars Society: A Risky Game was released April 2025. A third book will be published in 2026.
Set in a world of old money, private schools, yacht club races, and a secret underground society, this series is packed with riddles, coded messages, and tough choices. It is perfect for readers who love mystery and drama with a twist.
Each month, we highlight one of our favorite books, not to give a full review, but to spark ideas for your classroom!
If you’re a homeschooler, teacher, or book club leader, these posts are designed to help you find great reads your students will love, along with engaging activities to make the experience even better.
We only feature books we genuinely enjoy and that students connect with, so you can feel confident adding them to your recommendations.
If you are hosting a book club, or looking to add on to a novel study, these activities can be used as an intro to the book or throughout reading it.
As a fun activity to get to know each other, each student takes a turn saying three facts about themselves. Two of these facts are true, and one is a lie. Everyone has to to guess which the lie is. For a larger class, you can break off into smaller groups to the play the game.
Another fun spin on the activity could be at the end of the book. Everyone takes turns saying three facts about the plot or a character in the book. Two of the facts are true, and one is false. This is a great way for students to showcase how much they remember from the book.
Life is full of choices that can be more grey than black-and-white. The characters in the books are often faced with hard decisions.
A couple of examples from the book to debate and discuss could include:
“Is keeping a secret ever the right thing to do?”
“Would you join the Last Heir society if it meant betraying a friend?”
There are also lists online with other ethical dilemma questions you could discuss as a group.
You can use these as a larger group project, or have students pick one they connect with best.
Have students brainstorm what club they would create. They can name it, create a logo for it, and make rules for the members to follow. They can create a poster to advertise and pitch their club to the class.
Have students pick which character they liked best, or randomly assign some of the characters to each student or small group. Using whatever tools they prefer, design a collage to showcase who the character is, their interests, personality, fears, goals, and secrets.
At the end, students can display all the characters on a wall like it’s a Boston School yearbook display from the book.
Get your students doing something fun and interactive that is not project-based.
Introduce the students to Murdle or Murdle JR, depending on their logic puzzle-solving skills. Can they solve the mystery? A new free puzzle is added every day to the website.
Introduce your students to Caesar ciphers (letter shifting), pigpen ciphers (symbols), and anagrams (scrambled words). Have students work in groups to create coded messages for other groups to try and solve.
Once the students have read the books, discuss what they think will happen in the third book, coming out in 2026.
Instead of a classroom discussion, this can be a quick journal reflection, a creative writing prompt, or even a classroom vote.
