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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9780810970717 ISBN: 0810970716 Label: Amulet Books Manufacturer: Amulet Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: September 01, 2008 Publisher: Amulet Books Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Amulet Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: New York Times bestselling author Lauren Myracle offers a spine-tingling, unforgettable story of friendship gone very, very wrong. Lauren Myracle brings her keen understanding of teen dynamics to a hypnotic horror story of twisted friendship. When Bliss’s hippie parents leave the commune and dump her at the home of her aloof grandmother in a tony Atlanta neighborhood, it’s like being set down on an alien planet. The only guide naive Bliss has to her new environment is what she’s seen on The Andy Griffith Show. But Mayberry is poor preparation for Crestview Academy, an elite school where the tensions of the present and the dark secrets of the past threaten to simmer into violence. Openhearted Bliss desperately wants new friends, making her the perfect prey of a troubled girl whose obsession with a long-ago death puts Bliss, and anyone she’s kind to, in mortal danger. Lauren Myracle has taken the ubiquitous friendship novel to a new, dark place. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A contagiously creepy tale of high school horrorHigh school freshman Bliss Inthemorningdew is completely unprepared for her new life. Having been raised by her hippie parents on a commune, she has no concept of fashion, boys or dances. Open-hearted Bliss is also completely oblivious (and immune) to the cliques, social intrigues and ostracism that characterize high school social life. So when Bliss (whose parents have fled to Canada to escape the Vietnam draft) relocates to Atlanta, Georgia, to live with her proper Southern grandmother and attend ... Read More Rating:  - A wonderful thriller falls flatI will be brief - this was a fascinating book, there was definitely a lot of suspense as well as a few plot twists I wasn't expecting. I was a great read - except for its conclusion. The way the book ends make me feel as if there must be a sequel in the works, either that or there has got to be a chapter missing. It ended very strangely, cruelly, abruptly, and without resolving any conflicts or giving anything positive to `the good guys', leaving me confused and wondering if there was something big ... Read More Rating: - Page Turner for Teens, with some history and gore thrown inThe setting of this book is Atlanta, Georgia 1969. Bliss Inthemorningdew (her parents are hippies) is living with her grandmother while her parents are in Canada to protest the Nixon administration. She has never been enrolled in school, and has been living the hippie lifestyle with her parents in communes and even on a university campus. As Bliss enters a prep school for the first time, she discovers many new things. The school used to be run by nuns, and a girl threw herself from the third story of ... Read More 
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