Hard time
By: Julian F. Thompson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Justice, Administration of -- Fiction.; Magic -- Fiction.; Dolls -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; Reformatories -- Fiction.; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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 first to jail then to a cross between a school and boot camp.