Dimensions
150 x 218 x 28mm
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?
Ages 14+
