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Black Mirror

by Nancy Werlin

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Dial (2001), Hardcover, 249 pages

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There are many interesting issues for teens to explore in this book including identity, peer relationships, drugs, and family relationships. The story is a unique page turner and readers who love mysteries as well as those looking for a mixed race protagonist will especially enjoy this book.
  YAlit | May 7, 2009 |
Frances and her brother attended an exclusive prep school on scholarship. While she didn’t fit in or feel comfortable, her brother had a large friendly group of friends connected to a charity organization. When he suddenly dies of a heroin overdose, Frances joins his organization to get to know his friends better. Instead of befriending them, she becomes suspicious that her brother might have been murdered – and the club was involved somehow in his the crime. ( )
  kewpie | Jan 4, 2008 |
I enjoyed reading this, but didn't find it as suspenseful as I had hoped...Nancy Werlin is supposed to be one of the best YA suspense writers, but I wasn't kept on the edge of my seat, by any means. I wish there had been alittle more romance, or at least more development of the detective's relationship with the main character. The characterization of her brother's ex girlfriend didn't ring true to me at all. (Sorry I can't remember any names!) ( )
  skoeppen | Sep 14, 2007 |
Wow. This book was very boring and slow. I didn't feel that Werlin put as much into this one as she had to her other novels.

This book was said to be a page turner and a thriller. I really gave this book a try, but didn't find it that way. The real mystery didnt come in until at least half way through.

I really couldn't finish it. I will probably pick this book back up and try it again some day, but I really didn't find it thrilling or mysterious. I just found it boring and long. ( )
  slightlyfan | Jan 17, 2007 |
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Seven years ago, when I was only nine and we had just moved into her house, Bubbe stood me in front of her.
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Frances Leventhal's brother Daniel has committed suicide at the exclusive Pettengill School. But there is more to his death than meets the eye! 16-year-old Frances Leventhal, half Japanese, half Jewish American, can't bear to look at herself in the mirror. She has hidden from herself and everyone around her for years, and now that her brother Daniel has committed suicide by taking a massive heroine overdose, she can't help thinking that it's all her fault. If she hadn't been so caught up in her own insecurities, maybe she would have noticed her brother's pain. It's time to stop hiding -- to reach out to Daniel's friends at their private school, where they were both scholarship pupils. Daniel had been deeply involved in Unity Service, the charitable group famed across the country for its work through schools, and Frances is determined to join the group and somehow make amends. But something's not right about Unity, and soon Frances finds herself in the middle of a puzzle too ominous to ignore. Exactly what are the Unity members trying to conceal? This time, Francis isn't hiding. The memory of her brother is at stake.

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