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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate this...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Children from all walks of life experience various emotions when their parent is in jail or prison, but they learn there are ways to communicate their feelings that will help improve their situation and remind them they are not alone.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley 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...
Author
Publisher
Engine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moses and Jorge will never leave the maximum security prison. Outside its walls, Gina, Shell, and Ellen will never escape its influence, or the way it tethers them to one another. When Jorge dies in his cell, lives within and beyond the prison walls are upended, testing the boundaries we all draw to keep the good in, the hurtful out."--From publisher's web site.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A six-year-old boy tells his version of why daddy couldn't stay with his family in post-WWII Yugoslavia. In reality, the child's father has gone to prison for romancing the lover of a high-ranking party member, but the boy thinks papa's away working.
Author
Publisher
Minedition, published by Michael Neugebauer Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Its visiting day, and Dad smells like peppermint--yuck! If only he would wear that nice, breezy cologne that smells like hazelnut ... So begins one boy's brief weekly visit with his father in prison. Here's a man who gets angry, but beneath that peppermint surface is much to admire, if only you take the time to look. This richly imagined picture book explores the inner life of a boy who struggles to love a father who can be difficult to love at times....
Series
Reading rainbow volume 146
Publisher
GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother make a long bus trip every month to visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 519
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
133 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shaka Senghor has lived the life of two fathers. With his first son, Jay, born shortly after Senghor was incarcerated for second-degree murder, he experienced the regret of his own mistakes and the disconnection caused by a society that sees Black lives as disposable. With his second, Sekou, born after Senghor's release, he has experienced healing, transformation, intimacy, and the possibilities of a world where men and boys can openly show one another...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
" . . . A novel about an autistic boy whose drawings represent something much deeper than even the doctors who study can grasp; his father, serving 25 to life for murder; his mother, trying to hold herself together and fix her broken child. It's a supernatural journey of crime and punishment, retribution and redemption that ultimately leads to a father saving his son, a mother connecting with her child, and an American family reclaiming itself"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Moll is born in Newgate prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of whoever will take her in. From this unfavorable beginning, the lusty, resourceful Moll loves and bargains her way from rags to riches, from prostitution in the streets of London to prosperity on a Virginia plantation. Along the way, she offers a charmingly candid view of her life and times.
18) Canada
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wendy Boychuck knows that her junior year at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Chicago will be a nightmare of shame after her father is convicted and imprisoned for extreme police brutality. But when she is accepted as the fourth bestie of superficially popular Kenzie, she gladly joins that circle, thinking they will shield her from the confrontations of being the daughter of a ruthless cop. Wendy abandons her true best friend, talented violinist...
20) Noble Norfleet
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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