Title: Full of beans
Description: Grown-ups lie. That s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means  locals ) in all of Key West. Not that Beans really minds; it s 1934, the middle of the Great Depression. With no jobs on the island, and no money anywhere, who can really blame the grown-ups for telling a few tales? Besides, Beans isn t anyone s fool. In fact, he has plans. Big plans. And the consequences might surprise even Beans himself.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Moneymaking projects, Depressions, Gangs, History, Children's fiction, Moneymaking projects, fiction, Gangs, fiction, Depressions, fiction, Florida, fiction, United states, history, 20th century, fiction, New York Times reviewed
Places: Key West (Fla.)
Time periods: 1929, 20th century