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Buckhead Author Raises Funds for VOX Teen Journalism Group

Seeks to bring ine $500 by year's end with sales of "The Red and Black Breed," a murder mystery set at UGA.

Buckhead author Molly Read Woo is donating end-of-year sales from her murder mystery "The Red and Black Breed" to the VOX teen journalism program.

Read, who raised $365 this week at a speciai "Christmas recovery" sing-a-long program at Manuel's Tavern, wants to raise $500 by the end of the year. She's giving the full $15 purchase price of each book sold to VOX, she said.

The book is a murder mystery set on the University of Georgia campus, Woo said. The main characters are former journalists for the UGA newspaper "The Red and Black" who work to solve the mystery.

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VOX students put out a publication and receive instruction from professional journalists such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff and Atlanta magazine writer Rich Eldredge.

Woo said that Klibanoff and Eldredge spoke at the Manuel's event, and "really brought home the impact of this program, telling the stories of a few teens whose lives were dramatically changed for the better by having a vehicle of expression to help them get through tough times."

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She said her own son, Max, a junior, attended a VOX mdia cafe program for two weeks last summer.


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