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Chapter One – Chapter Three

Chapter One

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: McManus, Karen. Two Can Keep a Secret. Delacorte Press, 2019.

• The novel is told from the first-person perspectives of two teenage characters: Ellery Corcoran and Malcolm Kelly.

• Chapter One is told from Ellery’s perspective and is dated Friday, August 30.

• Ellery Corcoran and her twin brother, Ezra, left California and have arrived in Vermont.

• The airport has lost Ellery’s luggage; Ellery fills out a claim while Ezra teases her about the fact that she carried her signed edition of In Cold Blood with her on the plane.

• Ellery maintains the book has value, but Ezra argues that the signature is fake and their mother, Sadie, was cheated.

• Ellery reflects on the extravagant gifts her mother had given them after she had landed a bit role as a corpse on...

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