Something like hope
By: Shawn Goodman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780385907866
Subjects: Emotional problems; Juvenile delinquents; Family problems; African Americans; Juvenile detention homes; Fiction
Description: Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen year-old in juvenile lockup,  wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past make her task seem impossible.
Notes: Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel, 2011.