Overview
Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham's junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties--friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she is--are shaken or cast off altogether. Most people in Elmgrove, Maryland, share the comforting conviction that Buddy Novak, who had every reason to want his ex-girlfriend dead, is responsible for the killings. Nora agrees at first, then begins to doubt Buddy's guilt, and finally comes to believe him innocent--the lone dissenting voice in Elmgrove. Told from several different perspectives, including that of the murderer, Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls is a suspenseful page-turner with a powerful human drama at its core.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780544022249
- ISBN-10: 0544022246
- Publisher: Clarion Books
- Publish Date: April 2013
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 336
- Reading Level: Ages 12-UP
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