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While I was researching "Not Just for Teens" (LJ 6/15/11), one of my sources turned me on to a book that I tragically missed last year. Cass Meyer is mourning the death of her best friend, Julia, not just because Julia was a brilliant actress and the creator of the musical Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad but because Cass was more than a little bit in love with her. To get her h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 8-Up After the death of her best friend, Cass finds herself questioning her own identity, sexuality, and place in the high school hierarchy. Before she died, Julia had been working on a top-secret project: a musical called "Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad" Now that she is gone, her boyfriend, Oliver, and her other theater friends are determined to stage the show as a tribute. Cass is committed to helping backstage, building spectacular traps and weapons-until Heather, Cass's middle school nemesis, is cast as the female lead...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Devastated by her best friend Julia's death, seventeen-year-old Cass worries that her remaining friends will desert her: they are all flamboyant, emotive theater people, while Cass is a reserved math nerd. The friends' decision to produce a musical theater script Julia had been writing gives Cass purpose and direction...until Heather, her middle-school nemesis, is cast in the lead role. So Cass takes off on a cross-country bike trip, trying to honor another of Julia's dreams; later, back hom...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seventeen-year-old Cass is devastated by her best friend Julia's death. Cass takes off on a cross-country bike trip; later, ba...Log In or Sign Up to Read More