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"Stanley Yelnats’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there is no lake—it has been dry for over a hundred years—and it’s hardly a camp: as punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds...
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"Before the time of youthful offender camps, a fifteen year old bank robber is sentenced to life in an adult prison. Covering a 9 1/2 year period from 1975 through 1985, the author gives a vivid description of how he survived by using his wits, luck, and creative remedies. Insightful, informative and at times humorous, prison life is explained from a unique perspective that anyone can relate to. Thorough descriptions of actual escapes and a prison...
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Since his mother died thirteen-year-old Troy has been skipping school and hanging out with the wrong crowd, and now he and his friend Foster have been sentenced to work in the local Philadelphia stables; at first he is apprehensive around the horses, but soon he bonds with a mare named Chance, and discovers the sport of polo--but also makes some new enemies.
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Contains a first-hand, narrative, account of the life of Amy Fisher, the notorious woman who as a teenager--in 1992--shot the wife of her abusive boyfriend, Joey Buttafuoco, and details her childhood, her experience in prison, parole, and her dramatic turnaround as a wife, mother, and newspaper columnist.
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This is the memoir of Kody Scott who was born in 1963 and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. In sixth grade he joined the Crips and soon earned the name "Monster" for his many acts of depravity. He transformed himself into black nationalist Sanyika Shakur while in a California maximum-security prison. --Book cover.
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