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Nursery Crimes
Death by Chocolate
Mara is an outsider at high school. She's a loner who bakes and writes poetry, but Connie, the most popular girl in the school, befriends her. She steals Mara's idea for a charity cake sale, so Mara wants her revenge - and she'll kill to get it.
- GenresHorrorYoung Adult
256 pages, Paperback
First published December 7, 1995
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March 5, 2020
What a fun, fast read! Fun twist I didn’t see at the end.
At Thomas G White High School (known as “Tommy” in the book), Mara Kreiger is an outcast. She sits at the “losers” table in the lunch room and none of the popular kids are kind to her...besides Connie. Connie is overly kind, always throwing compliments. Mara looks up to Connie. Always baking her yummy baked goods Connie can’t resist, Mara tells Connie one day she’d like to run a bake sale. Connie, trying to be helpful brings the idea to her popular friends and they steal the idea, making it their own. Mara is furious, and the events that follow are crazy. High School drama and bullying, home abuse, drug use and more are present in this Nursery Crimes title.
I look forward to reading Jack and Jill from the series next. Again, a fun, fast and easy read. I loved reading this in between some more series books.
At Thomas G White High School (known as “Tommy” in the book), Mara Kreiger is an outcast. She sits at the “losers” table in the lunch room and none of the popular kids are kind to her...besides Connie. Connie is overly kind, always throwing compliments. Mara looks up to Connie. Always baking her yummy baked goods Connie can’t resist, Mara tells Connie one day she’d like to run a bake sale. Connie, trying to be helpful brings the idea to her popular friends and they steal the idea, making it their own. Mara is furious, and the events that follow are crazy. High School drama and bullying, home abuse, drug use and more are present in this Nursery Crimes title.
I look forward to reading Jack and Jill from the series next. Again, a fun, fast and easy read. I loved reading this in between some more series books.
March 19, 2022
Eric Weiner is a talented YA writer. His characters are multi dimensional and real.
I love the transformation of Nursey Rhymes into Crimes.
And going to bake sales always reminds me of this book. Just glad there isn't poison in them like there are in this book.
Mara Kreiger is the school outcast who loves baking and writing poetry.
Connie Lewis is the popular nice girl. While her friends are mean to Mara, Connie is nice and helpful. So of course she is the one who will suffer the most instead of the actual mean popular crowd.
No surprises that Mara is a loner loser but she enacts justice for a stolen bake sale idea. I mean come on, it's not original.
Tragic story of revenge entwined with romance between Connie and drug addict Taylor Hall, that is remincent of Romeo and Juliet.
Good read. Just don't eat the cupcakes.
I love the transformation of Nursey Rhymes into Crimes.
And going to bake sales always reminds me of this book. Just glad there isn't poison in them like there are in this book.
Mara Kreiger is the school outcast who loves baking and writing poetry.
Connie Lewis is the popular nice girl. While her friends are mean to Mara, Connie is nice and helpful. So of course she is the one who will suffer the most instead of the actual mean popular crowd.
No surprises that Mara is a loner loser but she enacts justice for a stolen bake sale idea. I mean come on, it's not original.
Tragic story of revenge entwined with romance between Connie and drug addict Taylor Hall, that is remincent of Romeo and Juliet.
Good read. Just don't eat the cupcakes.
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December 31, 20152nd of the 3 Nursery Crimes books that I'm re-reading. Not quite as dark as "Jack and Jill," but still has it's fair share of murder, bulimia, anorexia, bullying, angst filled revenge, and abusive parents.
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