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1) Dear Justyce
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Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"For fifteen years, novelist and publisher Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs - kids for whom juvenile prison was a rite of passage. What started as a private journal became a harrowing account of one man's unshakable...
Author
Series
David Sloane thrillers volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Bringing his teenage son on a camping trip with an old friend and his friend's son, lawyer David Sloane embarks on a legal rescue mission when the boys are caught vandalizing a general store and sentenced to six months in a detention camp with ties to a corrupt judge.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray. Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?...
Author
Series
Twelve-fingered boy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who just might have superpowers and who attracts the attention both of the cellblock bullies and sinister Mr. Quincrux.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story....
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