cover image Hard Time: A Real Life Look at Juvenile Crime and Violence

Hard Time: A Real Life Look at Juvenile Crime and Violence

Janet Bode. Laurel Leaf Library, $4.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-440-21953-8

This mix of first-person narratives, poems and comic strips presents the perspectives of teens incarcerated for violent crimes, coping with neighborhood crime and children of convicts as well as adults who work with these teenagers. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)