Young Martin Stokes has been locked up in Rikers Island for five interminable months for an unintentional crime. After he is caught in a razor fight between two inmates, he is transferred to a different part of the prison where he gets the chance to attend high school and meets a teacher who wants to help him.
year: 2010, 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: prisons, fiction, prisoners, juvenile delinquency, african americans, education, rikers island (n.y.), fiction
Editions
Volponi, Paul
Viking (2010)
Young Martin Stokes has been locked up in Rikers Island for five interminable months for an unintentional crime. After he is caught in a razor fight between two inmates, he is transferred to a different part of the prison where he gets the chance to attend high school and meets a teacher who wants to help him.
Schools: 28
Volponi, Paul
Speak (2011)
Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island while waiting for his case to go to court.
Schools: 5