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Trials (Homicide)

Nothing to Lose

A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of

fiction, Homicide, Miami (Fla.), Mother-son relationship, Runaway teenagers

The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

Examines the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, two radical political anarchists accused and convicted of murder in Boston in 1920, and describes the events surrounding the trial, as well as the political a

1888-1927, 1891-1927, Massachusetts, Sacco, Nicola, Trials (Homicide)

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

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 cou

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Homicide)

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, 16 year-old Steve 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

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Homicide)

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

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 cou

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Homicide)

Alias Grace

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Grace Marks is convicted for her involvement in the vicious murder of her employer, a wealthy man, and his housekeeper and mistress.

19th century, b. 1826, Canada, fiction, Marks, Grace

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

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 cou

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Homicide)

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

One of Mark Twain's famous novels which relates to a crime of switching identities between two twin kids, one born free and the other born slave.

fiction, Impostors and imposture, Trials (Homicide), Twins

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Monster

Walter Dean Myers

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, 16 year-old Steve 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

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Homicide)

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Monster

Walter Dean Myers

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 cou

African Americans, fiction, Prisons, Self-perception, Trials (Homicide)

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