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Heroine archetypes
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Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
Is Cryer's Cross appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
This YA supernatural thriller features a protagonist with OCD navigating a small-town mystery involving missing teenagers. Contains psychological tension, mild horror elements, and themes of mental illness, but no graphic content.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include ocd, missing persons, and mental illness (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be drawn to the creepy mystery of disappearing classmates in an isolated Montana town where nothing is quite what it seems.