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What I saw and how I lied
Title:
What I saw and how I lied
Author:
Blundell, Judy
ISBN:
9780439903462
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2008
General Note:
National Book Award, 2008
Abstract:
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenaged Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever
Subject:
Coming of age -- Fiction
Family problems -- Fiction
Secrets -- Fiction
Florida -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Young adult fiction
Bildungsromans
Historical fiction
Summary:
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenaged Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever