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Bury the Lead

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Sherlock Holmes may not have been a journalist, but that doesn't stop high school senior Kennedy Carter from embracing his methods. With her sights set on becoming an investigative reporter, Kennedy lives by the famous detective's rules: observe the obvious, eliminate the impossible, and avoid romantic entanglements at all costs.

Kennedy has her heart set on winning the $10,000 Excellence in Emerging Journalism award so she can finally escape her small town and see the world with her very own kind-hearted Watson—best friend and school photographer Ravi Burman.

But research into a local urban legend and a murder investigation she can't resist are threatening to derail her plans. To find the killer preying on her graduating class, she and Ravi team up to investigate the deaths and work to uncover the story of a lifetime—if it doesn't cost them their lives first.

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    • School Library Journal

      June 1, 2021

      Gr 7 Up-High school senior Kennedy has always wanted to be a journalist. She and her best friend, Ravi, run the school newspaper and blog, the Maplefield Monitor. In their advanced journalism class, they decide to do a report on the urban legend of the "senior curse." Each year, a senior either goes missing, runs off, or dies by suicide. They want to investigate where the curse started and how many people have been its victims. Soon, Kennedy's rival, super popular mean girl Emma, goes missing. Kennedy and Ravi are involved with the search and are there when her body is found. Her death is ruled as a suicide, but was it? Kennedy, who loves Sherlock Holmes, investigates some suspicious circumstances surrounding the death and remains skeptical about it. As Kennedy and Ravi get nearer to the truth, readers will find themselves guessing and second-guessing, as the plot twists, turns, and plants red herrings. While the ending feels slightly abrupt, mystery fans will enjoy the teenage sleuthing. Kennedy is white and asexual and Ravi is brown-skinned with a British father. VERDICT A great choice where mysteries are popular.-Megan Huenemann, Norris H.S., Firth, NE

      Copyright 2021 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      May 15, 2021
      An aspiring journalist investigates the urban legend surrounding mysterious disappearances of students at her school. After losing out on an internship to fellow classmate Emma Morgan, high school senior Kennedy Carter looks for the next great expos� that will earn her the New England regional Excellence in Emerging Journalism Award. She dreams of getting out of her little Massachusetts town and becoming an investigative reporter. For their final project in journalism class, Kennedy and her best friend, school photographer Ravi Burman, decide to profile members of their school community and probe the curse haunting Maplefield High. Kennedy begins by researching students who disappeared in recent years--but everything takes a turn for the worse when Emma goes missing and is later found dead, supposedly by suicide. Certain that Emma was murdered, Kennedy and Ravi risk everything to uncover the truth behind the curse threatening Maplefield students, a truth which is contained in the anonymously authored side story, "The Making of a Monster," that is interspersed throughout the novel. Kennedy's self-righteousness is tempered by Ravi's levelheaded understanding, but asexual Kennedy fears their budding romance could ruin years of friendship. This mystery in the vein of Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2020) is well paced, but the resolution may strike readers knowledgeable about mystery conventions as not playing fair. Most characters are cued as White; pansexual Ravi's mother is White, and his father is cued as a British immigrant of Indian descent. Sufficiently thrilling. (Mystery. 13-17)

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