children of prisoners

A collection of personal stories exploring the emotions teens and their parents face when a parent is in prison.

"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in Tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the 'outside' world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest for answers about her past crime. As he gets closer to the truth, he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter where they come from ... but can he find a way to tell everyone what home truly means?"--Amazon.com.

Explores the impact of incarceration on families, and offers encouragement and advice for children eagerly awaiting their parents' release.

Explores the kinds of emotions children might feel when one of their parents is incarcerated, offering reassurance to kids with parents in jail that even though they are apart they can still be a family.

Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.

Explores the internal struggles of a child of an incarcerated parent.

Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth in nineteenth-century England.

When Milly's dad is sent to prison at first Milly feels angry and confused but soon gets to visit her dad at the prison.