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How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

178 pp. | Walker | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8027-9817-6 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-8027-9818-3 $18.89
(4) YA Illustrated by Kevin O'Malley. The demises of nineteen famous people, beginning with King Tut and ending with Albert Einstein, are recounted in gory detail. Attempts to lighten the accounts through use of a jokey tone and conversational slang can tiptoe into tastelessness; nevertheless, readers are warned in an introduction, and reluctant ones may snap this up. Crosshatched black-and-white spot art appears throughout the text. Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

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