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Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
3) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into it, it's up to this amateur attorney to save the day.
6) Superdog
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this illustrated novel told through journal entries, news clippings, and letters, twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.
8) Poison ivy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In a government class three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
10) The Kingdom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts.
11) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"When I finished this novel, I knew I would be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life." --Amanda Lovelace, award-winning author of the princess saves herself in this one. Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than...
Author
Series
How to hang a witch volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 16
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On trial for murdering an actually still-alive Alison DiLaurentis, only Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna know they have been framed and resolve to beat Ali at her own game.
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 6
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a kangaroo court of Everafters, led by Judge Mad Hatter, tries Mr. Canis for his past crimes as the Big Bad Wolf, the Grimms seek evidence to save their friend, although Sabrina questions whether he should be saved.
17) Madapple
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.
18) Kissing the rain
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hope must defend her developmentally disabled brother (who has not spoken a word since he was seven) when he is accused of murdering a beloved high school baseball coach.
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