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Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls is a 2012 American coming-of-age young adult historical fiction novel written by Mary Downing Hahn.In large part based on Hahn's own experiences with a real-life murder case from suburban Baltimore in 1955, the book is fictional, and follows protagonist Nora Cunningham, a high school junior mature beyond her years who is troubled by the implications of a horrific ...
Apr 17, 2012 · 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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Apr 17, 2012 · Mary Downing Hahn. 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 ...
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Apr 16, 2013 · Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls. Paperback – April 16, 2013. 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 ...
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Nov 14, 2019 · Mister Death's blue-eyed girls by Hahn, Mary Downing. Publication date ... tells the story of the 1956 murder of two teenaged girls in suburban Baltimore, Maryland
Mister Death’s Blue-eyed Girls. Written by Mary Downing Hahn Review by Kathryn Johnson. Based on an unsolved double murder in 1950s Maryland, where the author still lives, this chilling tale for young adult readers is both a coming-of-age story and a psychological study of accused and accusers, when no one really knows whom to blame for a brutal crime.
Apr 17, 2012 · Aleman’s narrative joins the ranks of heart-wrenching stories of migrant families who have been separated. An ode to the children of migrants who have been taken away. (Fiction. 14-18) Share your opinion of this book. The high school year is almost over, there’s a party in the park, and Mister Death will soon be there, rifle in hand.
