OLDER FICTION
Johnston, Julie

Little Red Lies

(2) YA Waiting for her soldier brother to return from WWII, almost-fourteen-year-old Rachel asserts that she's conquered childhood. That's just the first of many levels of lies, concealed truths, and pretense explored in this engrossing, finely wrought novel set in a small Ontario town. Rachel is a sympathetic, naive narrator, and Johnston plays out her rich themes thoroughly yet with great subtlety.

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