
Girls Like Her
HarperCollins · Hardcover · June 25, 2024
Winner of the Golden Kite Award A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder—and the one person who might be able to help her clear her name.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense, document-shaped story where competing accounts meet a girl the system may not hear.
- Themes
- American justice system, Being heard, Survival
- Pacing
- Fast
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Winner of the Golden Kite Award A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder—and the one person who might be able to help her clear her name. A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on—no one, except her state-appointed caseworker, a woman named Cadence Ware.
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In Ruby’s experience, that’s not anyone she can trust. Cadence is familiar with the cold reality of Ruby’s situation, even before Ruby was arrested. Angry and alone, homeless and hungry, breaking the law just to survive, she is the kind of girl no one wants to listen to, especially not the prosecutor who wants to put her away for life. But no one knows the story—the real story—of what happened the day Ruby met the man who would end up dead. As the layers of truth are peeled away and time is running out, Ruby and Cadence will both have desperate choices to make—choices that could mean the difference between Ruby spending her life in prison or her name being cleared. Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles, court transcripts, and more, Girls Like Her is a riveting and unflinching tale of the truths so often lost in the American justice system, and one girl’s fight to be heard.
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A tense, document-shaped story where competing accounts meet a girl the system may not hear.
Come here for
- Letters, court transcripts, and news articles give the story a layered, documentary feel.
- A fight to be heard inside a justice system with life-changing stakes.
Expect
- A race against time, with trust and the truth both in question.
- A raw, unflinching look at one girl’s fight to clear her name.
Where it sits
| YA Crime & Law | 45% |
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| Letters & Diaries for Teens | 41% |
| YA Crime Thrillers | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Letters & Diaries for Teens
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- YA Crime & Law
- YA Mysteries
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- US Stories for Teens
- Homelessness & Poverty for Teens
- Abuse & Trauma for Teens
- Finding Your Footing
- Authors
- Melanie Sumrow
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- June 25, 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- American justice system · Being heard · Survival
- Reading lane
- Letters & Diaries for Teens