Ms. Marie Raduazzo (Ms. Rad)

Ms. Rad taught Madison English at Pennycross High School.

## Appearance

A couple inches shorter than Georgia. Tightly curled hair that was just starting to go gray (as of *The Skeleton Haunts A House*).

## Personality

Madison describes her as really funny and perky, which nobody understands because she specializes in Holocaust literature. Georgia later describes her as Madison's favorite teacher and a perpetually cheerful firecracker, despite her specialty in Holocaust literature. She has a stuffed lion mascot called Lance in her classroom that she often touches and even talks to; she pats him when she's stalling or thinking. She's a great teacher with powerful observation skills.

## Sequential History

### A Skeleton In The Family

Madison likes Ms. Rad, claiming that English teachers are the best (Georgia agrees). She is called Ms. Rad because nobody can pronounce her last name, later revealed to be Raduazzo. Madison enjoys Ms. Rad and, having read the assigned *The Boy in the Striped Pajamas* multiple times, is happy that she won't have to read it again because it was summer reading. Ms. Rad has assigned *The Crucible* for the spring, which Madison will be reading for the third time.

### The Skeleton Takes A Bow

Madison sees Ms. Rad and Chedworth go into their office as soon as the afternoon bell rang. Ms. Rad offers to take the card Madison, Samantha, and the others made to Chedworth after school, because she's going to visit him anyways. Ms. Rad warmly greets Georgia when she goes to attend the faculty meeting at the PHS auditorium, the only teacher to do so. Ms. Rad sits in the one empty seat left in the front row, her accustomed spot in the auditorium, and becomes engrossed in a discussion of the latest YA book phenomena. Afterward, Ms. Rad invites Georgia over to her classroom to introduce her to Lance. While at her classroom, she welcomes Georgia to the PHS family and they discuss why the teachers are appearing hostile to Georgia (the proctoring, the master's vs. doctorate's, the adjunct life, etc.) then some basic expectations for Georgia as a professor. After Georgia's first class, Ms. Rad comes by to talk about how the class went and the upcoming parent-teacher conference, which Georgia will be in as a teacher; the rundown of procedures includes that conferences are on a first come, first served basis and there will be latecomers. Because Ms. Rad is a regular SAT testing proctor, Georgia goes to Ms. Rad's classroom to talk to her about how the SAT is administered, where she learns about ID tickets and how the hired test-takers could infiltrate the system, posing as the students who hired them. Ms. Rad is revealed by Chedworth to be on the PTO board that interviewed Robert Irwin, and Ms. Rad wasn't impressed by Irwin either. Ms. Rad is later eliminated from the list of suspects when they discuss bribed proctors. When Georgia returns to the school after being attacked the night of the parent-teacher conferences, Ms. Rad is the first to greet Georgia, apologizing profusely for what happened and saying she never should have told Georgia to let parents keep her late. Ms. Rad later saves Georgia a seat at the school meeting about Georgia's attacker. While thinking about how her temp job at PHS is over, Georgia notes that she'll miss Ms. Rad and Lance.

### The Skeleton Haunts A House

Sid and Georgia go to talk to Ms. Rad about Kendall, who's a former student of hers. It is revealed that she's been at PHS for over a decade and had taught most of the students who'd graduated from there. After her classes one day, Georgia goes to see Ms. Rad and catches her in her classroom. Ms. Rad is shown to still be rather firm in her rules: Georgia when she and Georgia were coworkers, Dr. Thackery when she and Georgia are teacher and parent, even though Georgia's daughter, Madison, is no longer Ms. Rad's student. Ms. Rad expresses sympathy at Kendall's death, and when Georgia says she wants to ask about Kendall to write a better condolence note to the family, Ms. Rad calls her out for lying. Georgia admits she's researching Kendall's murder and Ms. Rad offers up details about Kendall: she was a good student; polite to Ms. Rad and others teachers; not an original thinker and more focused on grades than on learning; was hardworking and meticulous; active in softball, choir, and Spanish club; fairly popular with a couple not-serious boyfriends and three close friends; the only time Kendall and her friends ever had to be disciplined were when they talked to each other in class; Ms. Rad had mixed feelings about them going to four different colleges because they were so close. Georgia then asked Ms. Rad about Linda Zaharee, who at this point is suspected of killing Kendall. Ms. Rad said she was shocked when she heard, and says that Linda is a troubled girl: her grades were good and she enjoyed literature, but she never seemed happy, didn't have many friends, and Ms. Rad suspected her of self-harming. Linda was never violent towards outwards. Ms. Rad never saw any signs of a rivalry between Linda and Kendall when they were in her class; in fact, she doesn't remember them ever interacting. She never saw anyone having an issue with Kendall. However, Lance didn't like Kendall. Ms. Rad says that she knows it sounds silly, but there are some students she has no particular reason to dislike or distrust, but on a subconscious level, she finds herself getting anxious when they touch Lance. Kendall was one of those people. However, Lance liked Linda, to the point that whenever Linda seemed particularly sad, Ms. Rad would let her have Lance for class. Ms. Rad also says that Lance likes Georgia and Madison just fine. This talk with Ms. Rad convinced Georgia that something was off with Kendall.