Summary

NOTE: "Excerpts" that are fictional accounts of books created for this novel appear throughout Allegedly.

Chapter 1 opens with a segment titled “Excerpt from Babies Killing Babies: Profiles of Preteen and Teen Murders by Jane E. Wood (pg.10)” (1). In the excerpt, the author briefly compared a girl named Mary Addison to a character in a movie and posed the question, “Was there something that made her snap, or was the evil dormant all along?” (2). The perspective then changes to Mary. She lives in a group home under the direction of Ms. Judy Stein and her sister, Ms. Reba. Mary is approaching her 16th birthday but knows there will be no party. She notes that everyone in the group home knows what her crime is, but no one asks her about it. Ms. Stein orders Mary to mop the floor and becomes angry when Mary...