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| Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Dust jackets (Bindings) Authors' autographs (Provenance) Coretta Scott King Award (Author): Honor book Juvenile fiction Fiction |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- Lockdown. New York : Amistad, c2010 (OCoLC)734933224 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Dean Myers; Amistad.; HarperCollins (Firm) |
| ISBN: | 9780061214806 0061214809 9780061214813 0061214817 |
| OCLC Number: | 311074969 |
| Notes: | Amistad is an imprint of Harper/Collins Publishers. "Typography by Andrea Vandergrift"--t.p. verso. Baldwin Library copy signed by the author. |
| Awards: | Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, 2011 |
| Description: | 247 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Walter Dean Myers. |
Abstract:
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
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A realistic and distrubing picture of juvie
Myers has written another book that goes to the heart of an issue. Reese has landed himself in a detention center but is allowed out on a work detail. He has to stay on the right path or he's not getting out. This book does an excellent job of creating a realistic and distrubing...
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Myers has written another book that goes to the heart of an issue. Reese has landed himself in a detention center but is allowed out on a work detail. He has to stay on the right path or he's not getting out. This book does an excellent job of creating a realistic and distrubing picture of juvie, while humanizing those living there.
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