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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Very little has been written about juvenile justice. In the greater consciousness, the word "justice" in this context has been leeched of meaning; it just signifies prison for kids. But to those living and working in various capacities within that system, the word "justice" holds a sepulchral gravity. In Children of the State, bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs presents three different true stories that show...
63) Endless love
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A story of the doomed romance between seventeen-year-old David and fifteen-year-old Jade. Banished from Jade's home by her daddy Hugh, David obsessively cooks up a scheme to get back into the family's good graces. Since this plan involves setting Jade's house on fire, the puppy-love romance is in for a bumpy ride. Jailed for arson, David heads directly to Jade the moment that he's released, with tragic results.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Father Boyle started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half of the gangs in Los Angeles. This collection presents parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Boyle's years of working with gangs.
65) Breathing: Atmen
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and starts to come to terms with his own youthful crime.
67) Trans
Publisher
Third Row Center Films
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A young man escapes from a juvenile detention center in southwest Florida and enters a surreal hypnotic world of backwater towns, suspicious strangers, and newfound friends.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Leon is not like most ten-year olds. This innocent-looking boy with an overly fertile imagination is a young hellion, a consummate liar and thief well versed in breaking and entering his neighbors' homes and running away from his own. When his mom decides to pack up and leave for Greece, Leon does so much to keep her there.
77) Nathan's run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
78) We were here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
Author
Series
Inspector Lynley novel volume 14
Language
English
Description
"In North Kensington three orphaned mixed-race children are bounced from one home to another. The middle child Joel takes care of the youngest, Toby, who isn't quite right. When a local gang threatens Toby, Joel makes a pact with the devil that ends in the murder of Thomas Lynley's wife."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
80) Rotten
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer "JD" Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer "upstate" he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten, but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.
