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Bryant, Jen

The Trial

170 pp. | Knopf | March, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-375-82752-8 $$14.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-92752-2 $$16.99
(2) YA The Bruno Hauptmann trial might not seem a likely focus for middle-school historical fiction, but Bryant has a capable witness in twelve-year-old Katie, a nascent journalist. The free-verse novel succeeds in drawing together the events of the kidnapping trial and its attendant media storm with Depression-era events and both of those with Katie's own life; its picture of celebrity and justice offers contemporary resonance as well.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2004

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