No choirboy
Subtitle: murder, violence, and teenagers on death row
By: Susan Kuklin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780805079500
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Death row inmates -- United States -- Interviews -- Juvenile literature.; Juvenile delinquents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Capital punishment -- United States.; Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States.; Death row inmates -- United States -- Interviews.; Juvenile delinquents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Interviews; Interviews.
Description: In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-205) and index.

A Junior Library Guild selection
Table of contents: value: I was a teenager on death row chapter; value: The fourteen-year-old adult; value: Look at me; value: Hate is a killer, dialogue I; value: Private with our grief, dialogue II; value: Dying for legal assistance : Roy's and Mark's lawyer.