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Chapters i-2

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Slaughter, Karin. Pretty Girls. HarperCollins, 2015. Hardcover.

• Chapters alternate between Sam’s first-person narrative (a journal written to his missing daughter) and third-person accounts that follow either Claire Scott or Lydia Delgado.

• Sam's chapters take place in the past.

• However, chapter abstracts use the present tense and provide a linear summary.

• Sam's chapters use Roman numerals, and Claire and Lydia's chapters use Arabic numbers.

• In Chapter i, Sam remembers when Julia disappeared at age 19, her mother and his ex-wife, told him that knowing what happened would be worse than never knowing the truth.

• His ex-wife believed knowing the details would tear him apart.

• Sam, however, needed facts.

• The sheriff thought she had run off.

• They organized search parties and searched everywhere they could think of.

• They knew she had been in a bar and...

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