Junior Library Guild Selection Kids\' Indie Next List Pick From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all Rise up. but can he find a way to tell everyone what home truly means?. . .
As he gets closer to the truth, he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter where they come from .
Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest for answers about her past crime.
When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped.
That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home.
His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together.
Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska.
Cook is a powerful story, perfect for fans of Wonder and When You Reach Me.
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T.
Junior Library Guild Selection Kids\' Indie Next List Pick From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all Rise up
