Wow, this was something. My daughter is a big Edgar Allan Poe fan - earrings, t-shirts, a clay puppet she made... So from that perspective I enjoyed this creepy Dr. Jekyll and Hyde tale of Poe (who was buried alive) and David who unknowingly released Poe. I loved the allusions to Poe's work but I don't know about the audience. The book as a whole read younger to me - David and Libby didn't seem to be 8th graders - until they kissed I guess - but the Poe characteristics make me hesitant to give the book to my younger students.
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