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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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.
2) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnate is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
3) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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.
4) Necropolis
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
Author
Series
Twelve-fingered boy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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.
6) Dear Justyce
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
7) Homeboyz
Author
Series
Hoopster trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Teddy's little sister, Tina, is gunned down in a drive-by shooting, the gang members who rule the streets in the Anderson family's rapidly deteriorating neighborhood dismiss the indcident as just another case of RP, RT -- wrong place, wrong time. While the Anderson family mourns, Teddy plots revenge. He is arrested for attempted homicide and thrown in to the dark reality of California's juvenile prisons, his plans for revenge foiled. An innovative...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray. Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?...
10) Lockdown
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Every day, about 70,000 young people are detained within the U.S. criminal justice system. Thousands of them are tried as adults, and housed in adult prisons. Once in detention centers and jails, young people are vulnerable to violence and sexual abuse. Incarcerated Youth presents a powerful, real-world look at the lives of these vulnerable young people.
12) Four secrets
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"...the photographs in Juvenile in Justice open our eyes to the world of the incarceration of American youths. The nearly 150 images in this book were made over 5 years of visiting more than 1,000 youth confined in more than 200 juvenile detention institutions in 31 states. These riveting photographs, accompanied by the life stories that these young people in custody shared with Ross, give voice to imprisoned children from families that have no resources...
14) Girls in justice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"...reveals the world of incarceration of America's young girls in detention. A rare, multi-dimensional look at these girls' vulnerable lives, ... speaks to the unique issues they face with ... essays, ... images, and the life stories shared by girls in custody"--Back cover.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Approximately ten thousand children are imprisoned in adult correctional facilities in the United States on any given day. Children as young as thirteen have received life sentences in prisons far from their family and community, vulnerable to abuse and neglect. These are often the same conditions that led them there in the first place. What is the most effective method of dealing with youth offenders? Should they be tried as adults and incarcerated...
Author
Series
Hemlock trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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.
17) Holding Smoke
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rodrigo Garcia, a young man with a long record of juvenile crimes is given one last chance to get his life in order at a detention camp for deliquent teens, but it is going to be difficult for him to learn to control his hot temper, especially when he is assigned to room with obnoxious big mouth Jon Chandler.
19) The journey back
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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.
20) The conviction
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Series
Description
A father takes the law into his own hands to save his son, trapped in a juvenile detention center from hell.