Mississippi trial, 1955
By: Chris Crowe
Publisher: Speak/Penguin Group
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780142501924
Subjects: Race relations; Murder; Juvenile fiction; Fathers and sons; Racism; Grandfathers; Fiction; African Americans
Description: In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago.
Notes: "First published in the United States of America by Phyllis Fogelman Books, an imprint of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002"--Title page verso.

Young Adult.

870 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader 5.5.

Reading Counts! 5.7.

American Library Association-YA (2003); Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Sciences (2003); International Reading Association Award.