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Author
Series
Twelve-fingered boy trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who just might have superpowers and who attracts the attention both of the cellblock bullies and sinister Mr. Quincrux.
2) Dear Justyce
Author
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Shortly after teenager Quan enters a not guilty plea for the shooting death of a police officer, he is placed in a holding cell to await trial....
Author
Language
English
Description
Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
5) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
6) Burning
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After three years in juvenile detention, Angela is just months shy of release, but then ten-year-old Jessica arrives in shackles and is placed in segregation, and while no one knows what she did to end up there, creepy things begin to happen and it becomes clear that Jessica and her possible supernatural powers are more dangerous than anyone expected.
7) Lockdown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
8) Four secrets
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through journal entries required by their social worker at a juvenile detention center, middle-schoolers Katie, Nate, and Renata relate how they came to kidnap their tormentor, Chase, a star athlete from the town's most prominent family, who surprisingly became their willing victim.
9) Thornhill
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mackenzie, who recently solved the mystery of her best friend's murder by a werewolf, goes in search of her boyfriend and uncovers secrets of a werewolf rehabilitation camp from the inside"--
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Una historia sobrenatural de culpabilidad e inocencia. En el exterior está Violet, una bailarina de ballet próxima a alcanzar la vida de sus sueños, vida que peligra con la aparición de una amenaza que podría revelar la impactante verdad de su gran logro. En el interior, dentro de las paredes del centro de detención juvenil de Aurora Hills, está Amber, encerrada por tanto tiempo que ya no puede imaginar la libertad. Atada a estos dos mundos...
11) The journey back
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After breaking out of juvenile detention, fourteen-year-old Digger stops his trek across Maryland at a campground where he recovers from injuries, cares for little Luke, works with smart and pretty Nora, and begins to understand how his behavior and choices shape his life.
13) Wise Young Fool
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A teenaged guitarist in a rock band deals with loss and anger as he relates the events that landed him in a juvenile detention center.
14) Holding Smoke
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
John "Smoke" Conlan uses his supernatural ability to travel outside the walls of a juvenile detention center to try to clear his name and help his fellow inmates find redemption.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen year-old in juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past make her task seem impossible.
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