Title: Something like hope
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.
Subjects: Emotional problems, Juvenile delinquents, Family problems, African Americans, Juvenile detention homes, Fiction, Dysfunctional families, Juvenile fiction, Emotional problems of teenagers, Correctional institutions, Juvenile delinquency, Emotionally disturbed children