Overturned
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.
FIC
year:
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide, poker, gambling, murder [X], casinos, fathers and daughters, juvenile fiction / social themes / friendship, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, juvenile fiction / action & adventure, african americans, nevada, las vegas (nev.), detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction [X], juvenile works, fiction, father-daughter relationship [X]
Trell
Thirteen-year-old Trell Taylor's father, Romero Taylor, was convicted of the murder of a girl Trell's age when Trell was just a baby.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: judicial error, gangs, fathers and daughters, reporters and reporting, lawyers, murder [X], errors, administration of justice, father-daughter relationship [X], criminal investigation, boston (mass.), mystery fiction [X], domestic fiction