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The Resource My story starts here : Voices of young offenders., Deborah Ellis
My story starts here : Voices of young offenders., Deborah Ellis
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The item My story starts here : Voices of young offenders., Deborah Ellis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item My story starts here : Voices of young offenders., Deborah Ellis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen ("Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you're just bad forever") but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time. Many readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after an incident of shoplifting, or the drug search at school, or hanging out with the wrong kids at the wrong time. The encounter with a mean cop, or a good one, that can change the trajectory of a kid's life. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The effect of youth crime on families (the book includes the points of view of family members as well as "voices of experience" — adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders). The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads — loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can't we do better? Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a dumb move without a thought for the consequences?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
- Title from eBook information screen.
- Isbn
- 9781773061344
- Link
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- Label
- My story starts here : Voices of young offenders.
- Title
- My story starts here
- Title remainder
- Voices of young offenders.
- Statement of responsibility
- Deborah Ellis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen ("Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you're just bad forever") but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time. Many readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after an incident of shoplifting, or the drug search at school, or hanging out with the wrong kids at the wrong time. The encounter with a mean cop, or a good one, that can change the trajectory of a kid's life. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The effect of youth crime on families (the book includes the points of view of family members as well as "voices of experience" — adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders). The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads — loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can't we do better? Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a dumb move without a thought for the consequences?
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ellis, Deborah
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
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- Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 4
- 800
- Intended audience source
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- Young Adult Nonfiction
- Law
- Label
- My story starts here : Voices of young offenders., Deborah Ellis
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- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781773061344
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- (electronic bk)
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- computer
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- Label
- My story starts here : Voices of young offenders., Deborah Ellis
- Link
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- http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=153&titleID=5005482
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- Title from eBook information screen.
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ODN0005005482
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781773061344
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 93DCF5D5-1EAB-447E-B47C-C4B3B42982EA
- System details
- Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 4663 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB)
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