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15-year-old Evie Spooner is a bit awkward and wishes she could grow up 15-year-old Evie Spooner is a bit awkward and wishes she could grow up a little bit a lot faster.\u00a0 She wishes she could be more like her mom, Beverly, whom she sees as a beautiful (albeit over-protective) mother and housewife who is capable of making practically anything look elegant.\u00a0 Being a housewife is more of … Continue reading What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}a little bit<\/del> a lot<\/em> faster.\u00a0 She wishes she could be more like her mom, Beverly, whom she sees as a beautiful (albeit over-protective) mother and housewife who is capable of making practically anything look elegant.\u00a0 Being a housewife is more of a recent thing for Beverly, though.\u00a0 During WWII, Beverly had to work in a local department store to help support her family, but her husband\/Evie\u2019s step-father is back from the war and is able to take care of his family again.\u00a0 Joe\u2019s appliance stores are doing really well, and he is happy to be back home in Queens, but the sudden appearance of a war buddy [Peter Coleridge] gets Joe acting strangely.\u00a0 Apropos of nothing, he decides to take Evie and Beverly to Palm Beach.\u00a0 The town is mostly shut down because they\u2019re there during the wrong season, but they manage to find a room at Le Mirage \u2014 where they end up meeting a glamorous couple, Mr. and Mrs. Grayson [also from New York City].\u00a0 Secrets slowly unfold, as Evie sees and hears things she shouldn\u2019t\u2026\u00a0 But, by the time Evie figures out what\u2019s going on, she is already caught in the middle of a web of lies.\u00a0 This is a great mystery, especially for people who enjoy historical fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"