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Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers HarperTeen/Amistad February 2010 247 pgs.
Summary 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.
It was interesting to read about people who feel they have nothing to live for outside of the jail they live in. It reminded me of last year's Dope Sick.
It was interesting to read about people who feel they have nothing to live for outside of the jail they live in. It reminded me of last year's Dope Sick.
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