Download or read book Young, Gifted and Dead: St Jude's Academy 1 written by Lucy Carver and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't go down to the woods today... You can't get into St Jude's Academy unless you're gifted, talented and supremely rich. New girl Alyssa is on a scholarship and feels like an outsider - she's not even that smart, apart from her photographic memory (and that's cheating, right?). Then one day her roommate Lily is found floating face down in the lake. It's apparent suicide, but, torn apart with guilt and grief, Alyssa is convinced that something is badly wrong. Soon her memory puts her on the trail of a sinister secret that might hold the clues to Lily's suspicious death. But Alyssa is in too deep, and she's being watched...