Allegedly

4 starred reviews

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.

Mary B. Addison killed a baby.

Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it?

There wasn't a point to setting the record straight before, but now she's got Ted--and their unborn child--to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary's fate now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?

--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Published: 01/24/2017
ISBN: 9780062422644
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2016
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2016
Booklist 12/15/2016 pg. 48
BookPage 02/01/2017
School Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 103
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2017 pg. 132 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 191904 / Allegedly
Reading Level: 4.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12