An Edgar Award-winnerA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Everyone in Indian Creek, North Carolina, is amazed that twelve-year-old Dovey did such a terrible thing. Even if she does tend to shoot her mouth off, she's mostly sticking up for her big brother, Amos, on account of his being deaf. If her sister, Caroline, hadn't let the likes of Parnell Caraway hang around her all summer, Dovey wouldn't be in this mess. Charged with murder, she might just have to keep quiet and let the city slicker lawyer handle things . . . or will she?An Accelerated Reader(R) Title