Juvie

By Steve Watkins

Book Overview

"A frank view of life in a juvenile detention center. . . . Absorbing and wrenching." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sadie has always been the responsible one. Not like her older sister, Carla, who leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when both sisters are caught up in a drug deal -- wrong place, wrong time -- Sadie does the responsible thing and confesses to a crime she didn't commit. Her choice keeps Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care, but Sadie's former life disappears beyond the stark bars of her cell.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763687561
• ISBN13: 9780763687564
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher