Bad Girls Don't Die -- Katie Alender, Paperback

A page-turning, spine-chilling young adult murder mystery about surviving the ghosts around us.

Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage. Or her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey. Or even like her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green, sometimes she uses old-fashioned language, and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves. Water boils on the unlit stove, and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in.

Alexis wants to think that it's all in her head, but soon, what she liked to think of as silly parlor tricks are becoming life-threatening: to her, her family, and to her budding relationship with the class president. Alexis knows she's the only person who can stop Kasey--but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore?

Author: Katie Alender
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/22/2010
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.55w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781423108771
Age Range: 12-17

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 131185 / Bad Girls Don't Die

Award: Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award - Second Place

About the Author
Katie Alender is the author of the Bad Girls Don't Die series. She is a graduate of the Florida State University Film School and lives in Los Angeles. When she's not writing novels, she can usually be found in her sewing room, making things for her friends or her dog (or her friends' dogs). She enjoys reading, eating delicious high-calorie foods, and hanging out with her husband and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Winston.