You'll Be the Death of Me — Content Guide for Parents
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- ViolenceSupporting
- Scary contentSupporting
- Race & cultureBrief
- ProfanitySupporting
- Sexual contentBrief
- Gender & orientationBrief
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- Religion
- Climate
- Gender roles
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PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
About this book
Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out from working two jobs since his family’s business failed. And outsider Cal just got stood up . . . again.
So when the three unexpectedly run into each other, they decide to avoid their problems by ditching. Just the three of them, like old times. Except they’ve barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say. . .
. . . until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school—and follow him to the scene of his own murder. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it’s about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common...like a connection to the dead kid. And they’re all hiding something.
Could it be that their chance reconnection wasn’t by chance after all?
Fans of the hit thriller that started it all can watch the secrets of the Bayview Four be revealed in the One of Us is Lying TV series now streaming on NBC's Peacock!
Frequently asked questions
Is You'll Be the Death of Me appropriate for a 7-year-old?
A student is murdered, characters are held hostage at gunpoint, and one person is hit with a crowbar in a fight. The teens find a dead classmate, become murder suspects and face a hostage scene at gunpoint in a tense thriller.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have violence?
Found (Supporting): A student is murdered, characters are held hostage at gunpoint, and one person is hit with a crowbar in a fight.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have scary content?
Found (Supporting): The teens find a dead classmate, become murder suspects and face a hostage scene at gunpoint in a tense thriller.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have religion?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have race & culture?
Found (Brief): A remembered mall scene shows Mateo, who is Puerto Rican and Polish, being followed by security and having his backpack searched when his friends were not.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have profanity?
Found (Supporting): Teen characters regularly use strong swear words throughout the book.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have sexual content?
Found (Brief): The publisher notes references to sex, and a storyline has a student texting and meeting an art teacher in a relationship that is described as inappropriate but ends with the adult respecting boundaries.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have gender roles?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does You'll Be the Death of Me have gender & orientation?
Found (Brief): Cal, one of the three main characters, has two fathers; the family is stated but is not what the story is about.
