03195cam a2200661 i 4500 1310786268 OCoLC 20241030115839.0 220309s2023 nyu d 000 1 eng 2022006228 9780593568545 0593568540 9780593568552 0593568559 9780593568576 0593568575 (OCoLC)1310786268 (OCoLC)1311407223 AJM pcc Emill, Jumata, author. 18691 The black queen / Jumata Emill. Black queen : Everyone loved her. Homecoming killed her. First edition. New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] 392 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikely ally in her search for the killer--her prime suspect, Tinsley, the white rival nominee for queen. Nova Albright was murdered the night of her coronation as the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High. Her body was found the next morning in the old slave cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating. Everyone in Lovett knows Tinsley McArthur-- wealthy, white-- would do anything to carry on the McArthur tradition of wearing the homecoming crown. Nova's best friend, Duchess Simmons, is the daughter of the first Black police captain in Lovett. She is convinced that Tinsley killed Nova-- but her father is doing what he always does. Which means that the white girl is going to walk. To prove Tinsley's guilt, Duchess will have to get close to her. But Tinsley has an agenda, too.... -- adapted from jacket Ages 14+. Delacorte Press. Grades 10-12. Delacorte Press. African Americans Juvenile fiction. 8513 Race relations Juvenile fiction. 8083 High schools Juvenile fiction. 10184 Schools Juvenile fiction. 6262 Contests Juvenile fiction. 13236 Murder Juvenile fiction. 8911 Best friends Juvenile fiction. 10328 African Americans Fiction. 10388 Race relations Fiction. 12093 High schools Fiction. 9846 Schools Fiction. 8027 Contests Fiction. 17700 Murder Fiction. 6010 Mystery and detective stories. 1604 Detective and mystery stories. 3071 Fictional Work 10412 Mystery fiction. gsafd 670 Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft 486 Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft 485 School fiction. lcgft 12586 Novels. lcgft 50 Romans. rvmgf 10426 Online version: Emill, Jumata. Black queen New York : Delacorte Press, 2023 9780593568569 (DLC) 2022006229 .b178410056 ddc BOOK 30193 30193 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ YA 2024-10-30 12.99 1 YA EMIL 66685 2025-02-01 2025-01-04 2024-10-30 BOOK 1