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Crossan, Sarah

Summary: With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018

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Ware, Syrus Marcus

Summary: Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners' Justice Day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers/Seven Stories Press 2023

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Marks, Janae

Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MAR

Thomas, Angie.

Summary: Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THO

Lennon, Thomas

Summary: Ronan, fifteen, the youngest and lowliest recruit to Ireland's secret Garda, faces untold danger from the wee people while trying to prove his imprisoned parents were framed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEN

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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Lennon 2019

Tomsic, Kim

Summary: On her twelfth birthday, Sage wishes on a magical candle for an end to the family curse she believes caused many problems, including sending her father to prison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOM

Gephart, Donna

Summary: Cleveland Rosebud Potts yearns to leave Sassafras, Florida for a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris, but problems with family, friends, and finances stand in her way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEP

Thomas, Angie

Summary: If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THO

de la Peña, Matt

Summary: While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH DE L

Venkatraman, Padma

Summary: In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VEN

de la Peña, Matt

Summary: While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE L

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE L

Birtha, Becky

Summary: Children who have a parent in prison express their feelings of sadness, anger, worry, and embarrassment and suggest that talking to others and keeping in contact with the missing parent helps them deal with the situation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIR

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