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  • Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025
  • Book Rating Review: https://tinyurl.com/ypssc2au

Death in the Jungle by Candace Fleming

  • This book chronicles the rise of the Peoples Temple from a religious movement to a destructive group, detailing the manipulation and abuse Jim Jones used to orchestrate the 1978 mass-murder suicide of over 900 people. 

  • This book contains: alternate sexual ideologies (mentioned), alcohol, animal cruelty, anxiety, blackmail, child abuse, controversial commentary, cult, death/grief (humans and animals), deception, depression, derogatory terms, discrimination, divination (themes), drugs, dubious consent, gore, inflammatory commentary, misogyny, molestation, murder (excessive), oppression, parental neglect, profanity, racism, rape/sexual assault (not explicit), sex exploitation, smoking, stalking, suicide (excessive/explicit), theft, and violence.

     

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