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Copyright © 2008 by Marlene Perez
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Perez, Marlene.
Dead is the new black/Marlene Perez.
p. cm.
Summary: While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into
service as a substitute cheerleader, sixteen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister
of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a
series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.
[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Cheerleading—Fiction. 3. Psychic ability—Fiction.
4. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 5. High schools—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.P4258De 2008
[Fic]—dc22 2007027677
ISBN 978-0-15-206408-2
Text set in Adobe Jenson
Designed by April Ward
First edition
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To my agent, Stephen Barbara, who got the party started