num_pages: 242
description: Martin Stokes, known as Forty, is a seventeen-year-old awaiting trial on Rikers Island for a minor offense. After his case gets postponed in New York City's dizzying system of overworked legal-aid lawyers and short-tempered judges, Forty embarks on an extended odyssey inside the world's largest and most dangerous jail.
language: English
title: Rikers
titlecomplete: Rikers
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Urban, Contemporary, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Crime, High School, School
ratings_count: 874
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Black Heron Press