Juvie

Juvie by Steve Watkins 2013, 320 pp Realistic Fiction Booklist Gr 9-12

Recommended by Oyster River Middle School 7th grader because “it has an interesting plot. It’s not too childish but some parts are mature.”

Comments: Aside from the higher age/grade recommendation due to drug use and other mature situations, this story of a 17-year old 'good girl' taking the blame for a botched crime to allow her sister to stay home with her daughter is --amazingly-- contrived and boring. Pass. Yvette/Merrimack