Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we’re eagerly anticipating.
Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one — she’s the star player on her AAU basketball team, she gets good grades, she dates a cute soccer player, and she tries to help out at home. Not like her older sister, Carla, who leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when both sisters are caught up in a drug deal — wrong place, wrong time — it falls to Sadie to confess to a crime she didn’t commit to keep Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care. Sadie is supposed to get off with a slap on the wrist, but somehow, impossibly, gets sentenced to six months in juvie. As life as Sadie knew it disappears beyond the stark bars of her cell, her anger — at her ex-boyfriend, at Carla, and at herself — fills the empty space left behind. Can Sadie forgive Carla for getting her mixed up in this mess? Can Carla straighten herself out to make a better life for Lulu, and for all of them? Can Sadie survive her time in juvie with her spirit intact?
Yes, yes, YES. There aren’t enough books featuring prison in YA, let alone females. I practically added Juvie by Steve Watkins to my TBR with the title alone. Want!
Due to be released by Candlewick Press in October 2013.
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You make a good point about prison not featuring in YA books – it’s not really a setting I’d thought about before but it’s a brilliant idea, and this book sounds really exciting. Sounds like there’s lots of interesting character relationships as well. Great pick!
Here’s my WoW for this week.
Happy reading! 🙂
This sounds really interesting, juvie isn’t a setting that I’ve read about in YA before, so it’s nice to see a book tackling something a little different. Thanks for the introduction!
Thanks for stopping by my WoW! 🙂
Definitely not a topic featured much in YA books. It’s one of the reasons I liked ABCs Wildfire so much in Season 1.