The Borden murders : Lizzie Borden and the trial of the century

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Label

The Borden murders : Lizzie Borden and the trial of the century

Title remainder

Lizzie Borden and the trial of the century

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Miller

Title variation

Lizzie Borden and the trial of the century

Creator

• Miller, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-
• trueMiller, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-

Author

• Miller, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-

Subject

• true1890s -- 1890 -- 1899
• Borden, Andrew Jackson, 1822-1892 -- Juvenile literature
• trueBorden, Lizzie, 1860-1927
• Borden, Lizzie, 1860-1927 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Juvenile literature
• Fall River (Mass.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• trueMurder
• Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts | Fall River -- Juvenile literature
• Murder -- Massachusetts | Fall River -- Juvenile literature
• trueMurder investigation
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• trueParricide
• trueSmall town life -- Massachusetts
• trueTrials (Murder)
• Trials (Murder) -- Massachusetts | New Bedford -- Juvenile literature
• trueWomen murderers
• trueBiographies -- Law and order | Criminals and law-breakers
• trueBiographies
• Borden, Abby Durfee Gray, 1828-1892 -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• trueBiographies
• Juvenile literature
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens

Language

eng

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. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. 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

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Award

• School Library Journal Best Books, 2016
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2017.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

345.744/02523

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

• Ages 10 & up
• 1100

Intended audience source

Lexile

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent