Trell (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763692759)

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?

Author: Dick Lehr
ISBN-10: 0763692751
ISBN-13: 9780763692759
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 192450 / Trell


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 07/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/10/2017
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017
Foreword 08/26/2017
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2017
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2017 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 pg. 150 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw