Juvie - Steve Watkins 电子书mobi+epub
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Teens > Literature & Fiction > Sports > Basketball
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Candlewick; Reprint edition (March 28, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763687561
ISBN-13: 978-0763687564
Juvie Paperback – March 28, 2017
by Steve Watkins (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Juvie-Steve-Watkins/dp/0763687561
Product details
Teens > Literature & Fiction > Sports > Basketball
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Candlewick; Reprint edition (March 28, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763687561
ISBN-13: 978-0763687564
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?
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Bleak. That’s what six months locked up in juvie looks like for 17-year-old Sadie. She isn’t anything like the conniving, lethal girls in surrounding cells. Sadie’s first and only offense was inadvertently trafficking drugs while carting home her strung-out teen-mom sister, Carla. Sadie took the fall to keep Carla out of adult jail and her beloved niece, Lulu, out of foster care. But heroism doesn’t dull Sadie’s fear or her longing: for Lulu, for her motorcycle, for a promising basketball career, for an erstwhile boyfriend. Watkins (What Comes After, 2011) has created a compelling first-person narrative anchored on Sadie’s self-reflection: “Just when you start to feel good about your life because of some little thing that might go well, there are fifty other reminders about where you are and where you’re going to be for a long time, and how you got here, and what everybody back home thinks about you now, and will probably think about you for the rest of your life.” A haunting story of loyalty, regret, and the fervent hope for second chances. Grades 9-12. --Lexi Walters Wright --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
In the midst of the terrible reality, realistically tiny glimmers of hope shine like candles fighting the darkness. A bleakly optimistic reminder to hold on to what is good.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Watkins offers a frank view of life in a juvenile detention center... Little by little, a multi-dimensional portrait of Sadie emerges, exposing her vulnerabilities and struggles with the mistakes she’s made... [A]bsorbing and wrenching.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[T]eens, especially reluctant readers, will be drawn into the tension and action.
—School Library Journal
The truth of surviving juvie is told with unflinching honesty and may be an eye-opener to many readers. The subject matter should appeal to reluctant readers.
—VOYA
The point that not guilty doesn’t mean innocent ... is subtly made, and readers may detect it through the overt story of Sadie as a strong and caring heroine making the best of a bad situation.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Paint
a picture of a life of a teenager who struggles to make good choices. In the end, a hopeful picture emerges for Sadie and her family. This book could fit well in hi/lo collections.
—Library Media Connection
Compelling... A haunting story of loyalty, regret, and the fervent hope for second chances.
—Booklist
About the Author
Steve Watkins is the author of two other novels for young readers, Down Sand Mountain, winner of a Golden Kite Award, and What Comes After. A short-story writer and winner of a Pushcart Prize, he lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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