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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
True Notebooks A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Author: Mark Salzman
When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles?s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes?expecting the worst?and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman?s first y...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781439551707
ISBN-10: 1439551707
Publication Date: 9/18/2008
Pages: 330
Edition: Reprint
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Book Type: Library Binding
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Wonderful book! A personal narrative of a journalist who volunteers to teach a writing class in juvenile hall that has heart, wit, and great character development.
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This is an awesome book, I'm almost sad to give it up.It follows the author through a year volunteering to help youth learn to write a Juvenile Hall.
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Great! portrays the dichotomy of trying to help, but only being able to do as much as a person is ready to accept.
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