Juvie Free Download PDF By Steve Watkins
| Title | : | Juvie |
| Author | : | Steve Watkins |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 320 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0763655090 |
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 si 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
about Author
Steve Watkins is the author of Down Sand Mountain, a young adult novel published in October 2008 by Candlewick Press Another young adult novel, Goat Girl, is scheduled for publication by Candlewick Press in spring 2011.Steve is also author of a short story collection, My Chaos Theory 2006, Southern Methodist University Press , which was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize, and an Honorable Steve Watkins is the author of Down Sand Mountain, a young adult novel published in October 2008 by Candlewick Press Another young adult novel, Goat Girl, is scheduled for publication by Candlewick Press in spring 2011.Steve is also author of a short story collection, My Chaos Theory 2006, Southern Methodist University Press , which was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize, and an Honorable Mention for the Library of Virginia Fiction Award He also wrote the award winning non fiction book The Black O Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire, published in 1997 by the University of Georgia Press, which tells the story of the largest employment discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S history His fiction, poetry, and non fiction articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation, Poets Writers, Mississippi Review, 100 Percent Pure Florida Fiction, North American Review, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.A graduate of Florida State University, Steve teaches journalism, creative writing, and Vietnam War literature at the University of Mary Washington He also teaches Ashtanga yoga, and works as an investigator and advocate for abused and neglected children through the child advocacy organization CASA He lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia with his wife Janet, and four daughters Maggie, Eva, Claire, and Lili Steve and Janet are co directors of the religious education program at the Fredericksburg Unitarian Universalist Church.from 
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Heart wrenching and real, Juvie tells the story of two sisters grappling with accountability, sacrifice and who will be there to help you after
320 pagesSteve Watkins
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