The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the by Sarah Miller PDF

By Sarah Miller

With homicide, court docket battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the tale of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and excellent for the typical Core.

Lizzie Borden took an awl, gave her mom 40 whacks. while she observed what she had performed, she gave her father forty-one.

In a compelling, linear narrative, Miller takes readers alongside as she investigates a brutal crime: the August four, 1892, murders of rich and fashionable Andrew and Abby Borden. The accused? Mild-mannered and hugely revered Lizzie Borden, daughter of Andrew and stepdaughter of Abby. such a lot of what's recognized approximately Lizzie’s arrest and next trial (and acquittal) comes from sensationalized newspaper studies; as Miller varieties truth from fiction, and as a criminal conflict will get lower than manner, a gripping portrait of a lady and a city emerges.

With inserts that includes interval photographs and newspaper clippings—and, definite, photos from the homicide scene—readers will consume this nonfiction publication that reads like fiction.

A School Library Journal top most sensible e-book of the Year

"Sure to be a success with precise crime enthusiasts everywhere." —School Library Journal, Starred

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