The Tragedy Paper

by Elizabeth Laban
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Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Tim MacBeth is a seventeen year old albino on his way to a new school.  His stepfather has arranged his acceptance into a prestigious new boarding school and Tim's plan is to blend quietly into the background as he has in the past.  This all changes when he meets Vanessa, a beautiful senior, on her way to the same school.  Vanessa and Tim become friends and carry out a secret relationship that is basically invisible to those around them.  But looming over all the seniors is their final project:  The Tragedy Paper, the school's version of a senior year thesis.  Neither Tim nor Vanessa, realize how tragically their senior year will end.