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Dead on Town Line

by Leslie Connor · 2005

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Making her powerful yet quiet debut, Connor delivers this original novel-in-verse—the story of a girl who is murdered by a classmate and finds herself stuck on the edges of the world she once knew and a realm whose tug she feels but can't quite find her way to. Illustrations.

Genre
ghostmystery
Setting
2000s
Audience
young adult
Length
short · 144 pages
Form
poetry

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