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My Story Starts Here: Voices of Young Offenders
By ELLIS, Deborah
- ISBN
- 9781773061214
- Publisher
- Groundwood
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2019 | Middle To High School
Gr 7 Up—Ellis's collection of interviews offers a varied and deeply humanizing picture of young adults who have interacted with the criminal justice system. The book effectively ties the issue of youth in conflict to poverty, substance abuse, violence, intergenerational trauma, and failure of government programs to provide an adequate safety net to children and families. The volume offers an alternati...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
