Girls Like Her

A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murderand the one person who might be able to help her clear her name. 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 onno one, except her state-appointed caseworker, a woman named Cadence Ware. In Rubys experience, thats not anyone she can trust. Cadence is familiar with the cold reality of Rubys 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 storythe real storyof 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 makechoices that could mean the difference between Ruby spending her life in prison or her name being cleared. Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles, court transcripts, and more, Girls Like Her is a riveting and unflinching tale of the truths so often lost in the American justice system, and one girls fight to be heard.