If The Witness Lied

If you like a good clean (or not so clean) mystery read If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney. In this book she tells the story from three different points of view each with their own unique voice and style of working things out. I couldn't put it down! It starts with the children in a broken family all in different places deciding they need to come home. They arrive just in time because their "Aunt" has decided to place the youngest, Tristan, (age 3) and supposed killer of both their parents on a TV show. The siblings come together to try and stop Tristan from yet again becoming the big news. And then it gets weird. Did Tristan really kill his father? If he didn't who did and why? Read If the Witness Lied to find out.

I say any middle schooler could read this as along as you can handle a little intensity and twisted story lines. I rated it an 8.

-Jojo