num_pages: 256
description: When a district attorney who is eager to make an example of a teenaged offender misinterprets an essay written by fifteen-year-old Annie Ireland, Annie, her best friend Roach Boy, and Primo, a magical being who is trapped in a doll's body, are sent to the Back to Basics Center, a wilderness school for troubled teens.
language: English
title: Hard Time
titlecomplete: Hard Time
genres: Young Adult
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Atheneum