Thursday, August 02, 2012

Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls

by Mary Downing Hahn
Hennepin County Library hardcover 330 pages
genre: historical fiction, murder mystery

What an interesting book. I wanted to see justice done. I wanted to see the killer caught. (It reminded me of Lovely Bones in that regard.) I don't want to do any spoilers, but I will say that the author's afterword affected my perception of the story I'd just read. Most of my students seem put off by historical fiction (this is set in the 1950s) and yet it was a more innocent time. Some of Nora's and Ellie's dilemmas fit with what kids today deal with. I'd love to hear other people's perceptions of this story.

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