In light of the racial strife related to criminal justice in our country, I've been leading a Facebook read-to-change book group. We finished Michele Alexander's THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS and are about to start Bryan Stevenson's JUST MERCY. It's not to late to join us as we begin this round of reading next week.As I'm reading, I find myself wondering which children's and young adult novels feature a main character with an incarcerated parent. I put the question out on twitter, and here are the results (please leave other titles in the comments section and I will add):
Picture Books
Early Readers
- KENNEDY'S BIG VISIT by Daphne Brooks
- VISITING DAY by Jacqueline Woodson
Middle-Grade Novels
- NINE CANDLES by Maria Testa
- THE SUNNY HOLIDAY SERIES by Coleen Paratore
- RUBY ON THE OUTSIDE by Nora Raleigh Baskin
- QUEENIE PEAVY by Robert Burch
- ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE PERRY T. COOK by Leslie Connor
- AN ANGEL FOR MARIQUA by Zetta Elliott
- JAKEMAN by Deborah Ellis
- THE YEAR THE SWALLOWS CAME EARLY by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
- HIDDEN by Helen Frost
- PIECES OF WHY by K.L. Going
- FLUSH by Carl Hiaasen
- JUNEBUG IN TROUBLE by Alice Mead
Young Adult Novels
- THE RAILWAY CHILDREN by E. Nesbit (Classic)
- THE SAME STUFF AS STARS by Katherine Paterson
- THE GIRL IN THE WELL IS ME by Karen Rivers
- TERRELL by Coe Booth
- MEXICAN WHITE BOY by Matt De la Peña
- LITTLE DORRIT by Charles Dickens (Classic)
- KEESHA'S HOUSE by Helen Frost
- THE ROW by J. R. Johansson
- CHASING FORGIVENESS by Neal Shusterman