Melanie Sumrow

Girls Like Her -- Melanie Sumrow, Hardcover

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A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder--and the one person who might be able to help her clear her name.

A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on--no one, except her state-appointed caseworker, a woman named Cadence Ware. In Ruby's experience, that's not anyone she can trust.

Cadence is familiar with the cold reality of Ruby's situation, even before Ruby was arrested. Angry and alone, homeless and hungry, breaking the law just to survive, she is the kind of girl no one wants to listen to, especially not the prosecutor who wants to put her away for life.

But no one knows the story--the real story--of what happened the day Ruby met the man who would end up dead. As the layers of truth are peeled away and time is running out, Ruby and Cadence will both have desperate choices to make--choices that could mean the difference between Ruby spending her life in prison or her name being cleared.

Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles, court transcripts, and more, Girls Like Her is a riveting and unflinching tale of the truths so often lost in the American justice system, and one girl's fight to be heard.



Author: Melanie Sumrow
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Published: 06/25/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780063343283
Age Range: 14-UP

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 57
School Library Journal 06/01/2024 pg. 88

Product Tags:

Balzer & Bray/Harperteen, Hardcover, High School, Law & Crime, Melanie Sumrow, Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes, Poverty & Homelessness, Psychological fiction, Social Themes, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction

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