TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emill,Jumata
TI  - The black queen
SN  - 9780593568545
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Delacorte Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Race relations
KW  - High schools
KW  - Schools
KW  - Contests
KW  - Murder
KW  - Best friends
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mystery and detective stories
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Fictional Work
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - School fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - Romans
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Ages 14+; Delacorte Press; Grades 10-12; Delacorte Press
N2  - 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
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