Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems
by Mel Glenn

Subjects: Death, African Americans, School Life  
Genre: Mystery/Detective Stories, Poetry

Tower High School is an urban inner-city school.  A group of high school students are invited to spend the weekend in a small rural town as part of an exchange program.  Each urban high student is paired with a rural student.  Like a zit, things come to a head after the "foreign exchange dance".  A beautiful local white student named Kristen winds up dead and the suspicion falls on her dance partner, Kwame, an African American student from Urban Tower High.  Who killed Kristen? To find out read Foreign Exchange by Mel Glenn.

Booktalk prepared by Janice Bailey, East Central High Librarian