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Book Review | Young Adult Books

‘Fracture’ by Megan Miranda and ‘Irises’ by Francisco X. Stork

By Meredith Goldstein

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 22, 2012

Every high school has ghosts who serve as cautionary tales, the students who die too young after doing something dangerous, like drinking and driving or diving into quarries. In Megan Miranda’s gripping debut “Fracture,’’ the kid who makes the stupid mistake lives, just barely, to tell the tale. The quick-witted and pragmatic Delaney, who, against her better judgment, walks across a not-quite-frozen lake in Maine only to fall beneath the ice does, technically, die - but only for about 11 minutes.

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