num_pages: 231
description: Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel.  This gripping read is based on the true events of the murder of Emmett Till, one of the nation's most notorious crimes  that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement .At first Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer. Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place." When Emmett's tortured dead body is found floating in a river, Hiram is determined to find out who could do such a thing. But what will it cost him to know?
language: English
title: Mississippi Trial, 1955
titlecomplete: Mississippi Trial, 1955
genres: Audiobook, Read For School, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens, School, Young Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 3671
awards: name: Jefferson Cup, name: Golden Sower Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Young Adult–Fiction
publisher: Speak