No one else can have you

No One Else Can Have You

by Kathleen Hale

Call Number: F HAL Genre: Realistic Fiction

"They should call her killer the scarecrow murderer, he says dully. Because whoever did it tore apart the Schultzes' scarecrows. They crammed the straw into my sister's mouth before sewing it closed." (Hale, 32) Ruth Fried was 18 years old and Kippy Bushman's best friend. She was murdered in the cornfield behind Kippy's house in Friendship, Wisconsn. The small town sheriff charges Ruth's boyfriend with her murder. Everyone wants to believe he did it because he is not nice. Kippy wants to believe he did it too, but she discovers he might be innocent. Her investigation gets her in a lot of trouble and might get her killed.

No One Else Can Have You is a good book about murder. But it is a good book about being a teenager in a small town too. Kippy learns things about Ruth when she reads her diary. As she investigates Ruth's murder she learns things about other teenagers and some adults in Friendship. But most of all she learns a lot about herself. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about murder and teenagers.

Aubrey Bridges, 2015