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We Were Liars Book Report
We were liars We were liars is a very sad and interesting book. The main character is Cadence it talks about how she spends every summer on a private island named Beechwood Island with her family. When she is on the island she hangs out with Mirren, Johnny, and Gat all four of them are called the lairs. On the island Cadence and her Mom live on a house named Windermere, Mirren and her siblings live on Cuddledown, Johnny and Gat live with their brothers on Red Gate.
During summer fifteen Cadence’s Dad had left them to go and live with a different woman he loved more. Gat and Cadence met for the first time and instantly fell in love with each other. They would spend every moment they can with each other, even though they didn’t know each other
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During the trip she wrote and email to Mirren, Johnny, and Gat hoping they would write back, they never wrote back. When she came back to the island she was too embarrassed to mention the emails. The island belongs to Their Grandad, he lived in Clairmont he wasn’t sure who should invest the house, every day the aunts would fight over who will get the house and the money when Grandad would pass away.
Johnny and Cadence thought they would never see each other again because all the aunts ever did was fight. The whole reason they would separate was because of Clairmon. One night when nobody was on the island Cadence, Mirren, Gat, and Johnny had planned to burn Clairmont down to the ground. They went to get gasoline, Gat would soak the basement, and Johnny would soak the third floor, Mirren would soak the second floor, and Cadence would soak the first floor.
When Cadence finished soaking the first floor the lit a match and watched the house cough on fire, she watched the reason of fighting burn to ashes, she had forgotten Mirren, Johnny, and Gat were still inside, by the time she had remembered it was too late she watched her family burn she watched her family go to a better

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