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The Name of the Star

Shades of London: Book One

by Maureen Johnson

Book 1 in the Shades of London series

372 pages · 2011

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Rory, of Bénouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.

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