The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & the Trial of the Century

by Sarah Miller

Book Overview

With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core.

Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.

In a compelling, linear narrative, Miller takes readers along as she investigates a brutal crime: the August 4, 1892, murders of wealthy and prominent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553498088
• ISBN13: 9780553498080
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher