Overturned
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of savi...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scholastic Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth. |
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| Physical Description: | 341 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | HL650L Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 100 (very high) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 100 (very high) |
| ISBN: | 9780545812504 054581250X 9781338169942 1338169947 |
| Author Notes: | Lamar Giles is the critically acclaimed author of Ruin Road ; The Getaway, a YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction title and a Quick Pick; Spin , which was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a YALSA Quick Pick; Overturned , which was also a YALSA Quick Pick; Not So Pure and Simple ; Fake ID , which was an Edgar Award finalist and a YALSA Quick Pick; and Endangered , which was also an Edgar Award finalist, as well as numerous middle-grade novels and comics. He is the editor of the anthology Fresh Ink . Lamar is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. He resides in Virginia with his family. |
