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By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Thorndike Press large print core seriesPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Large Print editionDescription: 401 pages (large print) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1410477363 (large print : hardcover)
  • 9781410477361 (large print : hardback)
Other title:
  • Kickback
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough on today's wild youth. But Dillon's mother, who knows other Blackburn kids who are doing hard time for minor infractions, isn't buying Scali's line. She hires Spenser to find the truth behind the draconian sentencing. From the Harbor Islands to a gated Florida community, Spenser and trusted ally Hawk follow a trail through the Boston underworld with links to a shadowy corporation that runs New England's private prisons. They eventually uncover a culture of corruption and cover-ups in the old mill town, where hundreds of kids are sent off to for-profit juvie jails.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction MYSTERY Atkins Ace SP 43 Checked out 08/01/2024 33111008023612
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates never dreamed that setting up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal could land him in a lockdown juvenile facility. But this is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough on today's wild youth. But Dillon's mother isn't buying Scali's line. She hires P.I. Spenser to find the truth behind the draconian sentencing.

Previously published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.

What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough on today's wild youth. But Dillon's mother, who knows other Blackburn kids who are doing hard time for minor infractions, isn't buying Scali's line. She hires Spenser to find the truth behind the draconian sentencing. From the Harbor Islands to a gated Florida community, Spenser and trusted ally Hawk follow a trail through the Boston underworld with links to a shadowy corporation that runs New England's private prisons. They eventually uncover a culture of corruption and cover-ups in the old mill town, where hundreds of kids are sent off to for-profit juvie jails.

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