Kindness for Weakness

In an environment where kindness equals weakness, how do those who care survive?


A Tayshas Reading List Pick
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book

“Shawn Goodman takes us inside the gritty world of our juvenile justice system with the verve of a master storyteller.” —Jordan Sonnenblick, author of Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

“A gripping story of a boy’s climb to manhood on his own terms.” —Paul Volponi, author of The Final Four

“The reader will be seized by [the boy’s] plight a...