Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780544022249)

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.

Author: Mary Downing Hahn
ISBN-10: 0544022246
ISBN-13: 9780544022249
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 151900 / Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls