Perfect Little Monsters
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects. And each one has a reason for wanting her to die.
Ella Moore was the most popular girl in school…and also the most hated. When she’s murdered at her own party, there are too many suspects to count. And too many people who think she deserved it.
The police’s prime suspect is the new girl, Dawn Foster. Dawn was the last to hand Ella a drink on the night she died. Plus, all of Ella’s friends with a motive for wanting Ella dead are more than willing to throw Dawn under the bus, if it means keeping the heat off themselves.
But Dawn refuses to go down without a fight. She’s determined to clear her name. As she delves deeper into the past, she discovers that Ella and her friends had major enemies, and someone is out for revenge. Dawn must uncover the truth before the police arrest the wrong suspect… and before the next person dies.
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Having moved from Santa Cruz, Calif., white high school senior Dawn Foster is the new girl at Sierton High in Wisconsin, where she and her parents—who were injured in an accident—live with her aunt Maddy. Though Dawn wrestles with secrets surrounding her past, she attempts to fit in by auditioning for the cheerleading squad. She makes the team, which includes popular white cheer captain Ella Moore; Latinx Lucy Aguilar, who has an eating disorder; and "half-Caucasian, half-Asian" Naomi Chen. After attending a pool party thrown by Ella, Dawn awakens the next morning to learn that Ella has been found dead. As Dawn, Lucy, and Naomi are brought in for questioning, alternating chapters chronicle events three years prior in which white Sierton High freshman Hannah Smith contends with vicious bullying perpetrated by Ella. Debut author He adds grit to a plot built on familiar high school mystery elements via the intertwining narratives, which dispense information in lightning-quick intervals that will keep readers on their toes all the way to the shocking conclusion. Ages 14–up.
