The arsonist

Oakes, Stephanie (Young adult author), author.

Book 2018

Molly Mavity doesn't believe her mother killed herself three years ago-- or that her father is about to be executed for his crimes. Pepper Yusef is a Kuwaiti immigrant with a seizure dog, and is about to fail out of school. They are tasked with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenage resistance fighter whose death led to the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

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