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Lockdown Lockdown Walter Dean Myers When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to thinking about it, you knew nobody could get in, either.It seems as if… OL14913033W
Getting somewhere Getting somewhere Beth Neff Four teenaged girls participating in a progressive juvenile detention facility on a farm have their lives changed by the experience. OL15946575W
The pact The pact Margaret Willey 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 … OL16442190W
The journey back The journey back Priscilla Cummings 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 N… OL16563971W
Kindness for weakness Kindness for weakness Shawn Goodman A fifteen-year-old boy from an abusive home desperately seeking his older brother's love and approval starts pushing drugs for him and suffers the consequences. OL16664170W
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly Stephanie Oakes The Kevinian Cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Pr… OL17697938W
Trapped in a vice Trapped in a vice Alexandra L. Cox "Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh t… OL19751169W
Burning Burning Rollins, Danielle (Author) 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 e… OL20026869W
Happy Baby Happy Baby Stephen Elliott 191 pages ; 21 cm OL20663749W
Burning Burning Danielle Rollins 346 pages ; 21 cm OL21319960W
Happy baby Happy baby Elliott, Stephen Stephen Elliott's new novel, Happy Baby, explores how pain can define desire, how the future becomes the past, and how grace struggles with self-destruction. The story, told in reverse, begins with t… OL5732434W
Nightrise (The Power of Five / The Gatekeepers #3) Nightrise (The Power of Five / The Gatekeepers #3) Anthony Horowitz 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 … OL84770W