Eleven year-old Jacob Tyronne DeShawn’s mother is in prison serving a lengthy sentence, and he and his sixteen year-old sister Shoshona travel ten hours four times a year to visit her. Accompanied by Ms. Granite, a social worker, a rag-tag collection of children and adolescents boards an old school bus after midnight on the [...]
I am a Taxi is the story of Diego Juárez, a thirteen-year old boy who lives with his mother and young sister in the women’s prison of San Sebastián. He struggles to support his family by running errands for inmates housed in both the women’s prison and the men’s prison next to it. [...]
Estranged from his mother, neglected by his truck-driver father, and entirely responsible for his eleven year-old deaf sister, Kat, fifteen year-old Darcy struggles to cope with almost overwhelming emotional pain. Despite the efforts of his teacher, Ms. Rose, at the alternative school where he’s been sent because of his unwillingness - or inability - [...]
