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Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls
By HAHN, Mary Downing
- ISBN
- 978-0-547-76062-9 978-0-547-82237-2
- Publisher
- Clarion
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 8 Up—The night before what promises to be a long, hot, and probably boring summer, Nora and her best friend, Ellie, go to an end-of-the-school-year party. The girls, along with their friends Cheryl and Bobby Jo, stride into the park in their short shorts and Keds for an evening of listening to Elvis Presley, drinking first beers, and exchanging sloppy kisses in the dark. In the morning Nora and Ellie, nursi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on April 1, 2012
A quintessential writer of supernatural stories, Hahn here gives readers a glimpse at real ghosts from her past, a 1955 murder of two teenage girls near her home. She takes that situation, retains the original setting, provides immediacy through a present-tense narration, and produces a top-notch coming-of-age mystery. Nora, just finishing her junior year of high school, has three friends (Ellie, Cheryl, and Bobbi Jo) and two dreams (to be popular and have some boy ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
When an unknown gunman kills her friends Cheryl and Bobbi Jo, Nora works through her grief and comes to believe that the assumed murderer...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
