Winner of the 2008 National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category, WHAT I SAW AND HOW I LIED is an addictive read unlike any other. Evie’s character undergoes such a journey that the reader can truly feel her struggles and be there for her as she uncovers her own version of falling down the rabbit hole, like Alice in Wonderland.
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Plot
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell is set in Queens, 1947 at the end of World War II. Narrator, fifteen year-old Evie, lives with her knockout gorgeous mother, Beverly and stepfather, Joe Spooner. Joe has recently returned home from the war. He owns his own business, and buys Evie’s mother expensive jewelry. Evie is anxious for life to get back to normal, but not for summer to end. After receiving a mysterious phone call, Joe announces that they will be leaving for Florida for a week long vacation. Evie is excited to “jump in the car and drive hundreds of miles, just to chase summer. It didn’t feel like anyone was chasing us. Not at all” (27).
Once in Florida, they meet only a few people. Tom and Arlene Grayson own a small hotel in New York. Peter Coleridge is a handsome ex-GI that was in Joe’s company during the war. As Joe builds a relationship with Tom, Evie spends time with Peter, chaperoned by her mother, of course. The vacation is extended as Joe decides to become business partners with Tom Grayson and Evie falls in love with Peter.
Several things happen that changed Evie’s life. The business deal falls through, a hurricane changes course, and a boating accident leaves Evie’s parents as murder suspects. Evie learns that everything she believed was a lie, and now it was her turn. Would she lie to save her parents or her first love?
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