The knife and the butterfly
By: Ashley Hope Pérez
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780761361565
Subjects: Salvadoran Americans; Juvenile delinquency; Gangs; Juvenile detention homes; Fiction
Description: After a brawl with a rival gang, sixteen-year-old Azael, a member of Houston's MS-13 gang and the son of illegal Salvadoran immigrants, wakes up in an unusual juvenile detention center where he is forced to observe another inmate through a one-way mirror.