| Trell Contributor(s): Lehr, Dick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0763692751 ISBN-13: 9780763692759 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Parents - Young Adult Fiction | Law & Crime - Young Adult Fiction | Careers, Occupations, Internships |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (1.05 lbs) 320 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 192450 Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the co-author of Black Mass comes a gripping YA novel inspired by the true story of a young man's false imprisonment for murder -- and those who fought to free him. On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. Amid public outcry, an immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly apprehended, charged, and -- wrongly -- convicted of the crime. Dick Lehr, a former reporter for the Boston Globe's famous Spotlight Team who investigated this case for the newspaper, now turns the story into Trell, a page-turning novel about the daughter of an imprisoned man who persuades a reporter and a lawyer to help her prove her father's innocence. What pieces of evidence might have been overlooked? Can they manage to get to the truth before a dangerous character from the neighborhood gets to them? |