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Feb 27, 2018 · 18,012 ratings2,610 reviews. Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit.
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Brief Synopsis. Main Characters. Story Points Over Chapters. Main Events. Themes and Insights. Reader's Takeaway. Conclusion. Introduction. "People Like Us" by Dana Mele is a gripping young adult mystery novel that delves into the complexities of friendship, betrayal, and secrets.
But when a girl’s body is found in the lake, Kay’s carefully constructed life begins to topple. The dead girl has left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of a murder investigation.
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A 2019 International Thriller Writers Award Nominee. A 2019 ALA Rainbow Book List Selection. A Junior Library Guild Selection. A YALSA BFYA Nominee. Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely.
Dana Mele’s People Like Us (2018) follows Kat, popular soccer girl and the ring-leader of her mean-girl gang at Bates Academy. It opens on the night of a Halloween dance, when the group drunkenly barrels their way from the hall to the lake. A step ahead of Kat is the object of her tense love, her best friend, Brie.
Jul 30, 2020 · People Like Us takes place at an all-girls boarding school and the book starts off with a bang when a group of popular girls finds a dead body in the lake the night of a school dance. The girls assume it is a suicide. The next day, one of the girls, Kay, is sent an email from the dead girl’s account telling her to go to her blog.
May 16, 2018 · Website: www.hopethompson.net. Tags: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. Hope Thompson. YA Fiction. People Like Us. Dana Mele. Dana Mele’s new novel, set in a New England boarding school, smartly mixes mystery with a coming-of-age story that hits all the uncomfortable buttons.
