How to Survive Your Murder
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Chapter Book · Ages 12–+ · 2022 · Est. 9 hour read

How to Survive Your Murder

By Danielle Valentine

Relive the night of a murder to save a sister and catch a killer before time runs out.

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320 pages· 80,360 words· Est. 9 hour read
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Alice Lawrence faces her sister's murder trial, but a mysterious attack sends her back to the night of the crime. With only hours to save Claire and unmask the true killer, Alice must navigate a deadly Halloween night. Can she change the past and alter her fate, or will the killer strike again? Time is ticking, and the stakes are life and death in this chilling race against time.

From the publisher

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying young adult horror novel from New York Times bestselling scream queen Danielle Valentine. “This terrifying book reads like a horror movie. No, wait. It has the suspense and shocks and screams of TEN horror movies in one. Great nasty fun!” –R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s death, Alice’s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she’s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister’s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each other’s best friends. Until Claire was taken away from her. On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.

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Format
Pages
320
Words
80,360
Reading age
12–99+
Audience
Young Adult
Lexile
HL740L
Themes & topics
Books about siblingsBooks about family
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.2
F&P level
~R
AR points
12
AR interest level
UG
AR quiz
521638
Publication
Published
August 1, 2023
First published
August 30, 2022
Publisher
Razorbill
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780593619582

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