| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations |
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text file rda |
| Contents |
Who's who -- Murder! -- The Bordens -- Investigation -- Inquest -- Arrest -- Preliminary hearing -- The waiting time -- Trial of the century -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Researching the Bordens -- Sources -- Acknowledgements. |
| Summary |
Here's middle-grade nonfiction that reads like a thriller. With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core. -- In a compelling, linear narrative, Miller takes readers along as she investigates a brutal crime: the August 4, 1892, murders of wealthy and prominent Andrew and Abby Borden. The accused? Mild-mannered and highly respected Lizzie Borden, daughter of Andrew and stepdaughter of Abby. Most of what is known about Lizzie's arrest and subsequent trial (and acquittal) comes from sensationalized newspaper reports; as Miller sorts fact from fiction, and as a legal battle gets under way, a gripping portrait of a woman and a town emerges. With inserts featuring period photos and newspaper clippings--and, yes, images from the murder scene--readers will devour this nonfiction book that reads like fiction. "Sure to be a hit with true crime fans everywhere." -- -- From the Hardcover edition. |
| Audience |
1100 Lexile. |
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1100L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.8 12 181746 |
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Accelerated Reader MG+ 7.8 12 181746 |
| Summary |
Examines the Borden murders, using newspaper articles to recreate the events and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden and exploring Lizzie's story to theorize on what may have happened. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Who's who -- Lizzie Borden took an axe -- Murder! -- The Bordens -- Investigation -- Inquest -- Arrest -- Preliminary hearing -- The waiting time -- Trial of the century -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Researching the Bordens -- Sources -- Acknowledgements. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
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Borden, Abby Durfee Gray, 1828-1892 -- Juvenile literature.
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Borden, Andrew Jackson, 1822-1892 -- Juvenile literature.
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Borden, Abby Durfee Gray, 1828-1892. |
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Borden, Andrew Jackson, 1822-1892. |
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Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927. |
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Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- New Beford -- Juvenile literature.
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Murder -- Massachusetts -- Fall River -- Juvenile literature.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts -- Fall River -- Juvenile literature.
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Murder. |
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Murder -- Investigation. |
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Trials. |
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Trials (Murder) |
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Fall River (Mass.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Borden, Abby Durfee Gray, 1828-1892.
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Borden, Andrew Jackson, 1822-1892.
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Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts -- New Beford.
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Murder -- Massachusetts -- Fall River.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts -- Fall River.
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Fall River (Mass.) -- History.
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Massachusetts -- Fall River. |
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Electronic books. |
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Miller, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979- Borden murders New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2016] 9780553498080 (DLC) 2015005371 (OCoLC)905759124 |
| ISBN |
9780553498103 : $53.97 |
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055349810X : $53.97 |
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