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No choirboy : murder, violence, and teenagers on death row

Author: Susan Kuklin
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.
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Genre/Form: Young adult literature
Young adult nonfiction
Children's nonfiction
Interviews
Juvenile works
Juvenile literature
Interviews Juvenile literature
Material Type: Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Kuklin
ISBN: 9780805079500 0805079505
OCLC Number: 181424147
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection
Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2009
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009.
Target Audience: 690
Description: 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: I was a teenager on death row chapter --
The fourteen-year-old adult --
Look at me --
Hate is a killer, dialogue I --
Private with our grief, dialogue II --
Dying for legal assistance : Roy's and Mark's lawyer.
Responsibility: Susan Kuklin.
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In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.

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