The book MONSTER was written 1999 by Walter Dean Myers. It's about a young, black boy in America who is accused of doing a robbery and being a murder. Steve, who is the defendant, often feels alone. He's scared all the time because of the other inmates, who are all strangers.
The book is written as a film script and the scences often change between diary, courtroom and other places. It's written in black Englisch. The book try to explain when you're guilty. The people in the book discuss all the time if Steve is guilty, because Steve argues to do the holdup.
I don't like the book because I don't like the topic. I think if you are not interesting in American prison life and trials in America, it's boring for you. But I like the structure, it's very diversified because sometimes Steve wrote a short dialog and then there were something about the trial or anything else.