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Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free
Gilbert Sullivan Set Me Free
Author: Kathleen Karr
During the early 1900s, a teenaged inmate's dreary life at Massachusetts's Sherborn Prison for Women changes for the better after she becomes a member of the prison choir and participates in the production of the operetta "The Pirates of Penzance."
ISBN-13: 9780756935184
ISBN-10: 0756935180
Pages: 226
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Perfection Learning
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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A rather unique YA novel set in a women's prison just as World War I is beginning, based partially on the history of the first U.S. women's prison. Told in the first person by teen-aged Libby, victimized into jewel thievery and then arrested and imprisoned, it gives the argument, through fiction, for prison rehabilitation rather than punishment, through recounting the effect of the prisoners putting on a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera. It also makes the women convicts into real people, not just criminals. An enjoyable book, as well as a thoughtful one.

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