Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey This story is about a girl named Laura Wishart, who everyone believes was killed by the outcast Jasper Jones. Little do they know that Jasper and Laura were deeply in love and there was no way he could have killed her (they had intended to run away together). But of course in the small town of Corrigan, Australia, everyone is ready to blame the shady guy no one knows. Jasper has lived a little life as a thief and a liar. Too bad he only steals what he has to, because his father is a drunk and always leaves town. Jasper's father never cared for him. Beatings and arguments are the only things he is given. He has to resort to stealing food, clothing, and occasionally beer. He's not entirely innocent, but he's not the monster the townspeople make him out to be. Laura was the perfect angel. The eldest daughter of the president of the city council. The valedictorian and the gorgeous girl next door. Of course, no one knew that her father abused her. Not even his mother. Until one night, Laura tried to inform her mother of the horrors her father had done to her, but she wouldn't...