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Girls like her / Melanie Sumrow.

by Sumrow, Melanie.

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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.

Homeless persons -- Fiction.

Homeless teenagers -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

9780063343283 (hc.)

359 p. ; 22 cm.

" 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. 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."-- provided by publisher.

Suspense fiction.

Epistolary fiction.

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