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The Basic Eight
by Daniel Handler (1999)
★3.71(26 ratings)
Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And it's true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that she's not a murderer at all -- she's a murderess
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Black Chalk
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Echoing 'The Basic Eight', this explores dangerous consequences stemming from a game among friends.
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The Rehearsal
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