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Nixon, Joan Lowery
A CANDIDATE FOR MURDER
New York : Dell, 1991
IL YA RL 5.4
ISBN 044021212X
Cary is 16 and just an average girl with a boyfriend and lots of other friends. The only thing different about Cary is that her father just announced that he is a candidate to be the next governor. She visits a friend to get away from all the visitors at her own home, but here’s what happens when she leaves her friends house to return back home: (Read some of page 11). That’s the end of chapter 1. (If the students want to hear more, read some of page 13.)
(Odile Heisel. oheisel@pen.k12.va.us, Library Media Specialist, Plains Elementary School , 225 American Legion Rd., Timberville, VA 22853) 
SUBJECTS:     Politics, Practical -- Fiction
                        Mystery and detective stories
 

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