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Maria Testa Gives Voice to Children of Imprisoned Parents

When I heard about Maria Testa’s book, Nine Candles, I needed it immediately. I was organizing book discussion programs for inmates reading children’s literature at the State Prison for Men in Concord,...

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Human Rights & Children’s Books: USBBY & PEN

  HUMAN RIGHTS and CHILDREN’S BOOKS:  USBBY and PEN --> United States Board on Books for Young People, USBBY, and International Board on Books for Young People, IBBY, provide an excellent source of...

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Young and Wrongly Accused

Years ago, my husband and I saw the documentary Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, about three teenage misfits in West Memphis, Arkansas who were accused—and then convicted—or the...

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The Human Cost of the International Drug War: A Review of An Uninterrupted...

Seventeen-year-old Francisco Quispe loves soccer, but even though he’s smart, he doesn’t expect much of a future in school because of his Aymara heritage and appearance. Along with his friend Reynaldo,...

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The Warden’s Daughter

Guest post by Padma Venkatraman The Warden’s Daughter THE WARDEN’S DAUGHTER By Jerry Spinelli   Cammie, the protagonist of Jerry Spinelli’s latest novel, lives in a flat adjoining the county prison....

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LETTERS to a PRISONER, inspired by Amnesty International

LETTERS to a PRISONER, written and illustrated by Jacques Goldskyn This simple but exquisite picture book is wordless. What beautiful irony! The book’s images slowly show us a parent and child...

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