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Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
Publisher
Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First published in 2021 by Shout Mouse Press
Physical Desc
xv, 269 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When You Hear Me (You Hear Us) is an anthology of poetry and personal stories centering the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the United States. Compiled by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, this rich collection includes firsthand accounts from both the young people charged and incarcerated in the adult criminal legal system and from the community at large: the mothers, the loved ones, the correctional...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 12 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The U.S.A. imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world. Behind 2.4 million prisoners lies an infinite ripple effect of incarceration on the family and community. A Sentence Apart follows three stories of people coping with a family member in prison, attempting to bridge broken relationships, and diligently working to reverse the generational cycle of incarceration. Tenea is a high school senior whose father has been in and out...
5) Time
Series
Criterion collection volume 1109
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
English
Description
What does the weight of time's passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jiordan's family was never quite like everyone else's, with her father's mood swings, her mother's attempts at normalcy, and her two older sisters with a different last name. But on the surface, they fit in. Until the day the FBI came knocking on the door. After that, her father's mood plunged to a dangerous new low. After that, there was an investigation into his business and a sentencing in court. Soon Jiordan's father would have to leave home,...
7) Moonrise
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
Author
Series
Ronan Boyle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ronan, fifteen, the youngest and lowliest recruit to Ireland's secret Garda, faces untold danger from the wee people while trying to prove his imprisoned parents were framed.
Publisher
Películas Rodríguez, S.A. de C.V
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Edition
Ed. platino.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
Español
Description
"Pepe el Toro es el carpintero del barrio, junto a su hija Chachita, su madre paralítica y su novia Celia. El rico Montés llevado por los celos que siente de Pepe por ser el novio de Celia lo acusa injustamente de haber matado a una prestamista y es enviado a prisión."--Container.
"The story of a carpenter whose entire family must work together to clear his name after he is charged with a murder."--Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First Spanish language edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
Español
Description
Milo hace un largo viaje en metro. Para pasar el tiempo, observa a la gente a su alrededor y hace dibujos de cómo se imagina que son sus vidas. Está el hombre de bigotes con un crucigrama; Milo lo dibuja jugando al solitario en un apartamento desordenado. Está la mujer vestida de novia; Milo la dibuja en una gran ceremonia en la catedral. Y luego está el chico del traje; Milo lo dibuja llegando a su hogar, que es un castillo. ¿Pero qué pasa...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
12) Born behind bars
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Chennai, India, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York"--
"The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.Bobby and Cheryl Love were...
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