Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Steve Harmon is a sixteen year old African American on trial for being an accomplice to a robbery that ended in a murder. While in jail, Steve writes down his thoughts and feelings in the form of a screenplay. The other defendants in his case attempt to paint Steve as guilty, but Steve claims innocence. Steve's innocence is never proven for sure, but the jury does end up finding Steve not guilty of being a lookout during the robbery. In this dark and modern realistic fiction graphic novel, Steve eventually questions what kind of person he is, and tries to decide if he really has become a monster.
Grades 7 & up.
Myers, W. D. (1999). Monster. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
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