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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
3) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Twelve-fingered boy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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?...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Richard Ross
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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...
11) Girls in justice
Publisher
The Image of Justice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
16) Holding Smoke
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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.
17) Dear Justyce
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
19) Necropolis
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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.
Publisher
[Colorado Department of Corrections, Office of Planning and Analysis]
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The report contains information on the incarcerated and parole populations under the jurisdiction of the Colorado Department of Corrections, as well as, the population of the youthful offender system (Y.O.S.). All population counts are reported as of the last day of the month.
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