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Allegedly

Tiffany D. Jackson

Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really "home"--No place where you fear for your life can be considered a home. Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home. There wasn't a point to setting the record straight before, but now she's got Ted -- and their unborn child -- to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary must find the voice to fight her past. And her fate lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But who really knows the real Mary?

GenresPregnant teenagersJuvenile fictionAfrican American teenagersGroup homesMothers and daughtersMurder

387 pages, 7 editions

English edition · First published 2017 by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers · ISBN 9780062422644

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7 editions

English

  • Allegedly · Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers · 2017 · ISBN 9780062422644 · 2 readers This page
  • Allegedly · Katherine Tegen Books · 2018 · ISBN 9780062422651
  • Allegedly · Turtleback · 2018 · ISBN 9780606410335
  • Allegedly: A Novel · Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers · 2017 · ISBN 9780062668653
  • Allegedly · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio · 2017 · ISBN 9781470859138
  • Allegedly · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio · 2017 · ISBN 9781470859152
  • Allegedly: A Novel · Katherine Tegen Books · 2017 · ISBN 9780062422668

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