"If the Witness Lied" Caroline B. Cooney

This book has an antagonist from Hell. I have never wanted to be inside a story, just so I can personally strangle the bad person myself. I kid you not. This book shows the true bonds of family love. Siblings must stick together to conquer their one and true enemy. Of course they're just kids trying to get through life after their parents died. Their mother was developing cancer while pregnant with the youngest sibling, Tris. The kemotherapy would kill her baby so she made the selfless decision to let the cancer take its course just so her baby can live. However, at the age of 2, Tris is said to have accidentally released the emergency brake in his father's jeep (while his father was searching for something underneath it), ending up killing his own father as well. -OR- did the one and only witness lie about the "accident"? Is she out to ruin their lives? Yes she is. I loved reading the bonds of these three children trying to survive these tough times when no one will listen to them. This is a short book that takes no time at all to read. I loved it and it made me go and hug my brother and sister once I finished it.