Juvie (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763655099)

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?

Author: Steve Watkins
ISBN-10: 0763655090
ISBN-13: 9780763655099
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 169811 / Juvie


Review Citation(s):
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