Barbera Academy High School: Difference between revisions

'''Barbera Academy High School''' is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_schools public] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school high school] located in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn Brooklyn], New York. Many of the victims and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_interest persons of interest] in [[The Mad Batter|the Mad Batter]] serial killer investigation once attended the school, a fact that school officials typically exclude from promotional materials.

== Behind the scenes ==

Barbera Academy High School is a fictional institution. (It does not appear in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_schools_in_New_York_City the list of high schools in New York City].) The author of the [[Gray Gaynes series]] has indicated that this moniker—like other titles or character/place names in the series—is a pop culture or literary reference to one of the mystery stories he enjoyed in his youth. According to the acknowledgments from [[Gray Rose|''Gray Rose'']]:<blockquote>Special thanks go to both my sons for their enduring love of a certain Saturday morning mystery-solving cartoon that I myself loved as a child, which inspired the name and mascot of the fictional high school attended by [[Matty Di Buca]]. It worked out well, considering that show’s producer (and thus the school’s namesake) was himself a Brooklynite.</blockquote>

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