All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook - Leslie Connor

Descriere All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook - Leslie Connor

A Junior Library Guild Selection and Kids' Indie Next List Pick. From the award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch comes a soaring and heartfelt story about a young boy who has been raised in a prison where his mom is an inmate. \n \nA soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up.\n \nAll Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful middle grade novel, perfect for fans of Wonder and When You Reach Me, from Leslie Connor, the award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch.\n \nFrom comes Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home.\n \nWhen Perry moves to the outside world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest for answers about her past crime. As he gets closer to the truth, he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter where they come from . . . but can he find a way to tell everyone what home truly means?\n \nJunior Library Guild Selection * Kids' Indie Next List Pick\n

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Katherine Tegen Books

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ENSTK

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9780062333476

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1

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