Author: Melissa Higgins
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484683420
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.
Author: Jackie Walter
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781445161327
Category : Children of prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A simple, sensitively written exploration of having a parent in prison. Dad's gone away for a while, but I don't understand why. I miss him. Children with a parent in prison often feel isolated, ashamed - unable to talk about their situation because they are scared of being bullied and judged. They often feel that they are to blame and having a parent in prison marks them as an outcast.
Author: Patrick Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990341857
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Louis is a fourth grader who is moving into his grandmother's house and is starting his first day at a new school. Louis' father is absent from his life because he is in prison. Louis' denial and disappointment in his father's absence is displayed by his series of imaginative lies about his father's whereabouts. Louis quickly learns he can only keep the lies going for so long and is forced to face the truth.
Author: James Ryle
Publisher: Truthworks
ISBN: 9780982614402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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A compelling true story of one man's personal journey from abandonment to love, from hopelessness to faith, and from incarceration to freedom.
Author: Sylvia A. Harvey
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568588828
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up. In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young father tries to maintain a relationship with his daughter despite a sentence of life without parole. In Kentucky, where the opioid epidemic has led to the increased incarceration of women, many of whom are white, one mother fights for custody of her children. In Mississippi, a wife steels herself for her husband's thirty-ninth year in prison and does her best to keep their sons close. Through these stories, Harvey reveals a shadow system of laws and regulations enacted to dehumanize the incarcerated and profit off their families -- from mandatory sentencing laws, to restrictions on prison visitation, to astronomical charges for brief phone calls. The Shadow System is an eye-opening account of the way incarceration has impacted generations of American families; it delivers a galvanizing clarion call to fix this broken system.
Author: Sandra Cain
Publisher: A & C Black
ISBN: 9780713650945
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Follows two young boys as they visit their dad in prison for the first time and explains the emotions they feel and the situations they encounter during their visit.
Author: Ashley C. Ford
Publisher: Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
ISBN: 1250245303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist Indie Bestseller “This is a book people will be talking about forever.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration . . . and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down. Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.
Author: Anthony Curcio
Publisher: Icg Children's
ISBN: 9780692470435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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"Written by an ex-con. Endorsed by PhD's, school principals and judges. Awesome book with an inspiring message: You are loved and you will get through this." -BERT BURYKILL, Vice Magazine There are nearly three million adults in the U.S. alone that are in prison or jail. Many of these being parents that leave behind unanswered questions with their children: What is jail? Why did this happen? Is it my fault? Is my daddy (or mommy) bad? Do they love me? My Daddy's in Jail is a story of two bears who have a father in prison. The book is narrated by a very odd cockroach.
Author: Fox Butterfield
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525521631
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness. The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Examining the long history of the Bogles, a white family, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime and, in doing so, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family's transgressions and tribulations, and an entirely new way to understand crime in America.
Author: Martha Whitmore Hickman
Publisher: Albert Whitman
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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When Andy's father is sent to prison for robbery and the family moves to be near him, Andy is afraid of what the kids at his new school will think.
