children of prisoners

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.

Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth.

Discusses how to deal with problems common to children of incarcerated parents.