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You Know What You Have To Do by Bonnie Shimko
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You Know What You Have To Do

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Length 5 hours 10 minutes
Language English
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You do not kill a man in cold blood and then talk your way out of it. Other than her real name—Mary-Magdalene Feigenbaum—fifteen-year-old Maggie’s problems seem ordinary. She has tiffs with her too-critical mother, a crush on her cute psychologist, and worries that her only friend—fellow outcast Abigail—is morphing into a popular girl, leaving her behind. But Maggie has a few not-so-ordinary problems. A voice in her head is telling her to kill. And not just anyone. Each time the target is a person who has done something terrible to someone Maggie cares for. You know what you have to do, the voice commands. Maggie struggles to resist, but the voice is relentless. And as its demands escalate, her world begins to crumble. With rising suspense, this story of psychological horror introduces a narrator whose own unique voice and irreverent humor are unforgettable—an unlikely hero fighting a desperate battle against incomprehensible evil.

Bonnie Shimko is the author of The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye, a 2011 ALA Best Book for YA and Letters in the Attic, winner of the Lamdba Literary Award. She lives in Plattsburgh, NY.

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Reviews

“All I can say (without it being a spoiler) is that I wish—oh, how I wish—that I’d written this myself! I’m still attempting to recover from the sock-in-the-stomach ending that I never saw coming.” —Lois Duncan, author of I Know What You Did Last Summer

“Dexter meets Judy Blume! A valuable jumping off place for important conversations about social and ethical issues—all in the context of a high school girl’s life.” —Ellen Bass, author of The Human Line

“Don’t mistake this for a thriller. Shimko is on to something braver: an unapologetic, morally ambivalent look at a young sociopath who is, at the very least, bothered by her actions. Is this American Psycho for teens?” Booklist

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