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Realistic (fiction)
The School Versus James Holt tells the story of a fifth-grade classroom learning about the process of a jury trial. Students are assigned roles as they try a real case in which the main character must prove that her friend James is innocent so he doesn’ t receive a week’ s worth of detention for a crime he says he didn’ t commit. Illustrations support the text.
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