num_pages: 192
description: McNeil Island in Washington state was the home of the last prison island in the United States accessible only by air or sea. It was also home to about fifty families including Colleen Frakes's. Her parentslike nearly everyone else on the islandboth worked in the prison where her father was the prisons captain and her mother worked in security. In this engaging graphic memoir a Xeric and Ignatz Award-winning comics artist Colleen Frakes tells the story of a typical girl growing up in atypical circumstances.
language: English
title: Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir
publisher: Zest Books ™