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McGinnis, Mindy.
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
New York : Katherine Tegen Books

IL YA
ISBN 0062320890
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Alex Craft is a tough, small town girl. Small towns are protective of their secrets. Alex Craft’s sister was brutally murdered. Everyone in town knows about Alex’s sister’s murder. Everyone also knows that after the murderer walked free, he ended up gruesomely murdered. Not everyone knows that Alex Craft murdered him including her teachers and classmates. Alex is a loner at the local high school but then shy PeeKay and handsome Jack, 2 classmates, become Alex’s friends. Alex’s own words to describe herself are “I am vengeance”. Violence does not bother her. PeeKay and Jack may not be so safe now that they’ve befriended “vengeance”.  (Oklahoma High School Sequoyah Award, 2018)

SUBJECTS:     High school students -- Fiction.
                        Revenge -- Fiction.

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