The juvie three / Gordon Korman.
By: Korman, Gordon [author.].
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TextPublisher: Los Angeles ; New York : Hyperion, 2017Copyright date: ℗♭2008Edition: New Paperback Edition.Description: 228 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781484798430; 1484798430.Other title: Juvie 3.Subject(s): Group homes -- Fiction | Juvenile delinquents -- Fiction | Cooperativeness -- Fiction | Friendship -- FictionDDC classification: FIC KOR Summary: "Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone. All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance. Douglas Healy, a former juvenile delinquent himself, is running an experimental halfway house in New York City, where he wants to make a difference in the lives of kids like Gecko, Terence, and Arjay. Things are going well until one night Healy is accidentally knocked unconscious while trying to break up a scuffle among the boys. Terrified of the consequences, they drop him off at a hospital and run away. When Healy wakes up, he has no memory of them or the halfway house. Afraid of being sent back to Juvie, the guys hatch a crazy scheme to continue on as if the group leader never left. But if the boys are discovered, their second chance will be their last...."--page [4] of cover.
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KH8 Senior School Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC KOR (Browse shelf) | Checked out | 05/06/2024 | 3KHSL000101092 |
First published in hardcover : 2008 ; in paperback : 2010.
"Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone. All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance. Douglas Healy, a former juvenile delinquent himself, is running an experimental halfway house in New York City, where he wants to make a difference in the lives of kids like Gecko, Terence, and Arjay. Things are going well until one night Healy is accidentally knocked unconscious while trying to break up a scuffle among the boys. Terrified of the consequences, they drop him off at a hospital and run away. When Healy wakes up, he has no memory of them or the halfway house. Afraid of being sent back to Juvie, the guys hatch a crazy scheme to continue on as if the group leader never left. But if the boys are discovered, their second chance will be their last...."--page [4] of cover.
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