Juvie Contributor(s): Watkins, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0763655090 ISBN-13: 9780763655099 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Law & Crime - Young Adult Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Basketball - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Siblings |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012955219 |
Age Level: 14-UP |
Grade Level: 9-UP |
Lexile Measure: 830(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.1" L (1.05 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Catalog Heading - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary - Curriculum Strand - Hi Interest/Low Vocabulary |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2013 Publishers Weekly 09/09/2013 Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2013 - Recommended - Better Than Most School Library Journal 10/01/2013 pg. 130 Booklist 10/15/2013 pg. 48 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2013 pg. 242 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 130 - Recommended, Satisfactory |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 169811 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Heart-wrenching and real, Juvie tells the story of two sisters grappling with accountability, sacrifice -- and who will be there to help you after you take the fall. Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one -- she's the star player on her AAU basketball team, she gets good grades, she dates a cute soccer player, and she tries to help out at home. 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 -- it falls to Sadie to confess to a crime she didn't commit to keep Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care. Sadie is supposed to get off with a slap on the wrist, but somehow, impossibly, gets sentenced to six months in juvie. As life as Sadie knew it disappears beyond the stark bars of her cell, her anger -- at her ex-boyfriend, at Carla, and at herself -- fills the empty space left behind. Can Sadie forgive Carla for getting her mixed up in this mess? Can Carla straighten herself out to make a better life for Lulu, and for all of them? Can Sadie survive her time in juvie with her spirit intact? |
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