Monster

by Walter Dean Myers
Lexile: 670
Genre: Realistic Fiction

16 year old Steve Harmon is in jail and on trial for murder. He his a high school kid active in his school's movie club and has made numerous movies about life in his neighborhood. Now the movie he's making in his mind, his the story of his life. Will he have to spend the rest of it in jail? Is he a "Monster" like the Prosecutor says?