Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems

When city students from Tower High visit a small river town for a weekend and a local girl is found dead, suspicion falls on a Black teen from the city, and poems from teens and townspeople lay out the clues.

Themes

Race & racism·Community & school·Activism & justice

Mood

Feels mysterious, tense.

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