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Gr 5–8—A companion to the award-winning Alabama Moon (Farrar, 2006), this novel stands on its own. The book opens with lots of action, as 14-year-old Hal is led in chains to the Hellenweiler Boys' Home, a lockdown facility in Tuscaloosa where he is to serve out his sentence. He and his father have an agreement: Daddy is going to stop drinking and Hal is going to keep a clean slate while incarcerated. However, the teen soon discovers that this i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In the follow-up to his debut novel, Alabama Moon (rev. 9/06), Key takes a secondary character, Hal Mitchell, and gives him his own story. After serving two years in the Pinson Boys' Home, fourteen-year-old Hal has just been transferred to Hellenweiler, a juvenile detention center with a justifiably sinister reputation. Gang violence sucks every boy there into its vortex—every boy...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Fourteen-year-old Hal (a secondary character from <i>Alabama Moon</i>) is transferred to a juvenile detention center with a justifiably sinister ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More