Children’s Books - Novels About Teens in Prison - NYTimes.com
By JESSICA BRUDER
Published: May 6, 2010
Reese Anderson lives in a 93-inch-square jail cell. At 14, he’s spent the past 22 months locked away for stealing prescription pads and selling them to a drug dealer. He’ll be up for release soon. But it’s hard to keep your mind on freedom when everyone around you seems bent on self- destruction. Even the name of the jail, the Progress Center, sounds darkly ironic. What could progress possibly mean in a place like this?
In “Lockdown,” Walter Dean Myers’s latest novel, the only way out is in
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