- Published: New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
- Year Published: 2008
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Description: 284 p. ; 22 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
Reading Level
- Lexile: 620
ISBN/Standard Number
- 9780439903462 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0439903467 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects
- Coming of age -- Fiction.
- Family problems -- Fiction.
- Secrets -- Fiction.
- Florida -- Fiction. -- 20th century -- History
- Florida -- Fiction.
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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.
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