A Newbery Honor Book Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water.
Plus, there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars.
And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cook\'s or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does.
There\'s my sister, Natalie, except she doesn\'t count.
I\'m not the only kid who lives here.
A Newbery Honor Book Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water