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Juvie

Juvie

by Steve Watkins
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/10/2013

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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?
ISBN:
9780763655099
9780763655099
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-10-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Candlewick Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
217x147x28mm
Weight:
0.49kg

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