Allegedly: Tiffany D. Jackson

A Psychological Thriller
Tiffany D. Jackson
Paperback
YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Social Themes / Violence *

Walter Dean Myers’s Monster meets E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars in this smart, gritty, and haunting YA debut in which Mary Addison—a teen girl who was convicted of an unspeakable crime at age nine—must find her voice to fight the past and tell what really happened that fateful night.

Now in paperback. Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn’t really “home”—no place where you fear for your life can be considered a home. Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home. There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now s