Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Waiting On Wednesday: Juvie by Steve Watkins

WoW is weekly meme created by Jill at Breaking The Spine in which bloggers can share books they're excited to get soon :)
 
 
 
Juvie
by Steve Watkins
 
Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one — she’s the star player on her AAU basketball team, she gets good grades, she dates a cute soccer player, and she tries to help out at home. Not like her older sister, Carla, who leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when both sisters are caught up in a drug deal — wrong place, wrong time — it falls to Sadie to confess to a crime she didn’t commit to keep Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care. Sadie is supposed to get off with a slap on the wrist, but somehow, impossibly, gets sentenced to six months in juvie. As life as Sadie knew it disappears beyond the stark bars of her cell, her anger — at her ex-boyfriend, at Carla, and at herself — fills the empty space left behind. Can Sadie forgive Carla for getting her mixed up in this mess? Can Carla straighten herself out to make a better life for Lulu, and for all of them? Can Sadie survive her time in juvie with her spirit intact?
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It's not often that I come across a YA book that is focused on a relationship between sisters, let alone one as complicated as this. I love my sister you know, but I am not so sure I would be willing to do something like this for her D:

I mean. Would you?

8 comments:

  1. oh wow this sounds very interesting.. I love sibling relationships whenever it is explored and done well and this looks like one of those ones.

    thanks for putting this on my radar,
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  2. No I would not do six months in juvie for my sister! LOL Sounds like an interesting one and like these people are in quite a mess!

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  3. This one sounds interesting. Hope it has a happy ending.
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  4. This reminds me of Prison Break.:)

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  5. This sounds really good, and I hadn't heard about it before. Thanks for the suggestion! Please check out my WoW!   And take a look at our giveaway of Hostage Three by Nick Lake.

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  6. I don't think I could do this but it's definitely sounding like an interesting read. Great pick this week!

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  7. Great pick! Juvie sounds really interesting, the kind of story where you're dreading the ending and hoping it'll all work out.
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  8. I've never heard of a book looking at juvie especially not for a girl-it's a very unique concept!

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