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Laban, Elizabeth.
THE TRAGEDY PAPER
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013
IL YA
ISBN
0375970401
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The Tragedy Paper is the title of the book and also the name of a huge assignment that every student at the prestigious Irving School must write in order to pass senior English. They all know the assignment is coming and it’s stressful. Like the tragedy paper, there are other traditions at the Irving School. It’s a boarding school steeped in traditions, including one that involves graduating seniors leaving a “treasure” for the next student to get his or her room. On the first day of fall semester the new seniors are excited to see what was left for them. Was it a favorite book with a list of tips for passing English, a check for $500 (someone actually got that one year!) or something generic like a bag of M&Ms? Duncan finds a note and a stack of CDs narrated by and left for him by Tim MacBeth. Tim was a loner who only came to Irving for the last semester of his senior year. Duncan already knows what happened to Tim last year and it wasn’t good. But he doesn’t know the whole story. It’s important for Tim to recount it and for Duncan to hear it. This is an interwoven story of friendship and first love, and of peer pressure and the magnitude of certain choices. Patricia McClune, Conestoga Valley High School  (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award nominee, 2014)

SUBJECTS:    Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
                        Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction.
                        Boarding schools -- Fiction.
                        High schools -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Albinos and albinism -- Fiction.

 
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