Getting Away With Murder: The True Story Of The Emmett Till Case

ISBN-10: 045147872X
ISBN-13: 9780451478726
Author: Crowe, Chris
Interest Level: 7-10
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: January 2018

Copyright: 2003

Page Count: 144

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Interest Level

Grades 7-10

Reading Level

Guided Reading: Z+
Lexile: 1210L
Accelerated Reader Level: 8.7
Accelerated Reader Points: 5.0
Grade Level Equivalent: 7

Genre

TRUE CRIME

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American *

YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism *

Description
When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago to visit family in a small town in Mississippi and was soon murdered for whistling at a white woman, a series of events took place that changed the ways of the South and the nation forever.