This book is written in a series of poems about the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby son. After a ransom was paid, the baby's body was found in the woods and a few years later, a German immigrant was convicted of murder and electrocuted. This story is told from the perspective of an adolescent who helps her uncle, a news reporter, take notes during the trial.
The book is amazing. I loved the lyric-nature of the story. I love how she "makes a story from a chaos of notes" on an historical event that I knew very little about. Katie Leigh, the young protagonists who loves news paper editing, is very perceptive about human nature. This was a quick read and the poem format shouldn't scare you off--it's very user-friendly. You'll like this book if you like historical fiction. It's similar to Out of the Dust.
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