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Locker Letters

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Locker Letters is a fictional story about high school students in Texas who find mysterious notes in their lockers.  All the notes are written in purple gel pen and sealed with a hot pink kiss. The way each student reacts to these notes creates the storyline. 

“When I went home after work, I turned on the TV.  There was [a] news story about our school.  The reporter said, “Hello, my name is Cari Carter.  There have been numerous robberies at North Elm High School and mysterious notes have turned up in lockers.  People say there is a ghost that has lived here for fifteen years.”  --- Maria Armani, Super Detective, Locker 445

Several mysteries pop up in the book that are brought to a conclusion with a little enhancement of some very minor characters introduced earlier in the story.  It is almost like the “deus ex machina” of Greek origins that we learned about in high school.  The book depicts serious subjects that the students face.  It also has features that may appear humorous to the reader, but are serious to the characters involved.  
    The book is the result of an actual North Texas High School class assignment. The students wrote the stories, created the characters and made them come alive on the pages of this intriguing book.  Their teachers and some other faculty members enhanced the stories with their own contributions.   
    I found Locker Letters to be an interesting study in teenage behavior and group cooperation. Notwithstanding the coordination of the stories by so many writers, the class also dealt with unexpected publishing problems.  The project became a real-life learning experience for the students as well as their teacher.
    All in all it was a good book that teens will be interested in reading and comparing the stories to their own lives.  Parents will be interested in the thought processes that this book brings out by the characters involved.  It might even leave them wondering if the some of the stories written by the kids are semi-autobiographical.