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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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Fiction, Conduct of life, Self-perception, Friendship, Juvenile delinquents, African Americans, Juvenile detention homes, Old age, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile delinquency, fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Old age, fiction, African americans, fiction, African American teenage boysEdition | Availability |
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When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to thinking about it, you knew nobody could get in, either.It seems as if the only progress that's going on at Progress juvenile facility is moving from juvy jail to real jail. Reese wants out early, but is he supposed to just sit back and let his friend Toon get jumped? Then Reese gets a second chance when he's picked for the work program at a senior citizens' home. He doesn't mean to keep messing up, but it's not so easy, at Progress or in life. One of the residents, Mr. Hooft, gives him a particularly hard time. If he can convince Mr. Hooft that he's a decent person, not a criminal, maybe he'll be able to convince himself.Acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers offers an honest story about finding a way to make it without getting lost in the shuffle.
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