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Homicide

The Long Night of Leo and Bree

Ellen Wittlinger

On the anniversary of his sister's murder, Leo, tormented by his mother's insane accusations and his own waking nightmares, kidnaps a wealthy girl intending to kill her, but instead their long night t

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Remembering Mog

Colby F. Rodowsky

After graduating from a private high school in Baltimore, Annie comes to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered two years earlier.

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Murdered, My Sweet

Joan Lowery Nixon

Jenny and her mother hunt a killer while fearing for their own safety, after the reading of their millionaire cousin's will leads to the murder of another cousin.

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The Learning Tree

Gordon Parks

A slum youth in process of discovering his own black identity, learns to live it.

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Freaky Green Eyes

Joyce Carol Oates

Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A spectacular wedding, a sudden scandal, and a murder to which an entire town appears to be an accessory are the elements of this extraordinary short novel.

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The Killer's Cousin

Nancy Werlin

After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange yo

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