“I kissed my best friend’s boyfriend over Christmas break.” That’s pretty much the act that changed the life of seventeen-year-old Emma, trying to fight her attraction to Joann’s boyfriend Colin, with whom she’s been close platonic friends since early childhood, and trying desperately to win a track scholarship that’ll allow her to escape her stiflingly small Indiana town where everybody knows everybody and nonconformity arouses distrust. That latter tendency begins to loom sinisterly after a series of Trinity Evangelical Secondary’s most popular girls fall suddenly ill, ostensibly from poisoning, and suspicion is cast on teens on the edge of the bell curve, ranging from Todd (Jewish) to Dwight (fantasy geek). Emma knows that the charges are bogus, that the “poisonings” are a drunken and druggy night gone awry followed by copycat collapsing, but she can’t reveal that she knows this without exposing the fact that she was secretly out with Colin (which will destroy her friendship with Joann) and without immediately suffering expulsion from the track team—and thus destroying her scholarship chances—for being at a party with alcohol. Cook is clever indeed, starting out her story as a witty and juicy tale of star-crossed romance and friendship that will get readers thoroughly invested in her protagonist. When Emma is thrown, through no real fault of her own, into a large-scale ethical dilemma, it’s therefore a matter of considerable readerly concern for her both to acquit herself well and to find a way out. The local culture is portrayed with vivid credibility and the ramp-up into ostracism and scapegoating shockingly believable; the situation may ring a few literary bells for readers, and the author in fact slyly offers a salute to a thematic touchstone (Emma’s full name is Emma Elizabeth Proctor, echoing The Crucible’s Elizabeth Proctor), but the book explores an authentic contemporary experience as well as reexamining the classic theme. Absorbingly readable in its own right, this is also rife with curricular possibilities, and it could partner up not only with Miller’s play but with A Break with Charity (BCCB 9/92), Rinaldi’s atmospherically similar novel of the Salem witch hunt, or with Joyce Carol Oates’ Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (BCCB 6/02), another contemporary look at community pack instinct running unchecked.

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