Trell: Nothing But the Truth

Trell: Nothing But the TruthBy: Dick Lehr Trell is an appealingly gutsy heroine whose belief in her father is strong enough to drag an attorney and a down on his luck journalist into her orbit. School Library Journal On a hot summer night in Boston in the late 1980s, a twelve year old African American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang related gunfire. An immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young

By: Dick Lehr     

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“Trell is an appealingly gutsy heroine whose belief in her father is strong enough to drag an attorney and a down-on-his-luck journalist into her orbit.” — School Library Journal

On a hot summer night in Boston in the late 1980s, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. An immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly apprehended, charged, and — wrongly — convicted of the crime. Dick Lehr, a former reporter for the Boston Globe’s famous Spotlight Team who investigated this case for the newspaper, now turns the story into a page-turning novel about the daughter of an imprisoned man who persuades a reporter and a lawyer to help her prove her father’s innocence.