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241 pp.
| Chronicle |
April, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4521-0860-5$16.99
(2)
YA
Poet Emily Dickinson, fifteen, is the sleuth in this mystery set in 1845 Amherst, Massachusetts. When a young man turns up dead in her family's pond, Emily is determined to find out how he died. MacColl gracefully folds factual elements of Dickinson's life and work into the fiction, highlighting her youthful sociability and wit as well as her intelligence and curiosity.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2013