# What I Saw and How I Lied

**Author:** Judy Blundell
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2010
**Page count:** 290
**ISBN-13:** `9780545232166`
**ISBN-10:** `0545232163`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/what-i-saw-and-how-i-lied
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

This National Book Award winner set during the aftermath of WWII is now available in paperback!When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him . . . until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.

## Where this book is assigned

### National Book Award for Young People's Literature

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2008 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2008 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2008 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2008 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)

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