Mandy Mikulencak
1) Burn Girl
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Arlie's face was disfigured by burns when her stepfather's meth lab exploded. After that, Arlie discovered the street smarts and survival skills she needed to shelter her addict mother, since the law and Lloyd, her deranged stepfather, are both looking for them. People died in the explosion and everyone wants answers. But Arlie's carefully constructed world is ripped apart when her mother commits suicide shortly after Arlie's sixteenth birthday.
...Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ginny Polk works as a prison cook and also prepares the last meals of those sentenced to execution. When she stumbles upon information about the man executed for killing her father, it leads to a series of dark and painful revelations.
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On a hot, humid July morning, sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering calmly and deliberately shoots her father in the back. To their Mississippi community, the death of well-regarded attorney Richard Pickering is a fascinating scandal. To Cissy's distraught mother, Caroline, it's an unforgivable crime. But in Cissy's troubled mind, killing her father was the only way she knew to save the two people she loves most in the world. For years, Cissy has endured...