What I Saw And How I Lied (edition 2010)

by Judy Blundell

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Title:	What I Saw And How I Lied
Authors:	Judy Blundell
Info:	Scholastic Paperbacks (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 288 pages
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What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell

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This was only OK as teen/YA books go. Quite nice that it's set in an older era for a change, but the foreshadowings and drama are all a bit obvious.
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lxydis | May 11, 2013 |

Outstanding. More later. Its late. I didn't seem to be able to put this down for sleep. (

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Yona | May 2, 2013 |

From the first page the voice and tone of the young character draw you into a sinister story that you don't want to stop until you find out who is going to get killed and who did the killing. (

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paakre | Apr 27, 2013 |

As I was reading this book I had the thought in the back of my mind that this reminded me of an old movie, just couldn't remember which one. This book combines the questioning that comes from being a normal teen with the pressure of living in a step-family with becoming a reunited family after a long seperation, with learning that your heros can sometimes not be very heroic and turns out a book that kept me interested. (

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SparklePonies | Apr 24, 2013 |

I really wanted to like this book... and it wasn't dreadful. However, I felt something was missing. The ending really dropped off. (

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Lo que vi y por qué mentí

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What I Saw and How I Lied

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Palm Beach, Florida, USA

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National Book Award (Young People's Literature, 2008)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2009)

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year (2008)

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This book is dedicated to Betsy, Julie, and katherine, tall in their saddles.

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The match snapped, then sizzled, and I woke up fast.

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. . . but you do know, don't you, that it's a crime to be sad under a full moon.

I was an adult now, just like her. But feeling grown up? I discovered something right then: It comes and it goes. I was still afraid of my mom.

Being an adut - was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?

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Summer's ending, Evie's step-father is finally home from the Second World War, and Evie is tired of her glamorous mother treating her like a little girl. Then a mysterious stranger appears; a handsome ex-GI who served with Evie's step-father. Slowly, Evie realizes that she is falling in love with him - but he has dark secrets, and a strange control over her parents. When he is found dead, Evie's world is shattered. Torn between her family and the man he loved, Evie must betray someone. The question is ...who?

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In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage 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 change her life and that of her family forever.… (more)

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