The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
YA Fiction

This teen thriller offers an entertaining mix of humor and horror. When Rory Deveaux moves to London, she expects to work hard at her classes and survive being on the field hockey team at Wexford, her new private school. She gets to know her classmates, flirts with a boy in the library and reminisces about life back in Louisiana. Despite some awkward moments trying to fit in, Rory has a great sense of humor, a keen eye and a strong voice: “Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk or your former self and that much closer to death.” But when a Jack the Ripper imitator terrorizes the city, Rory realizes she sees things other people can’t. Things that could get her killed.