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Jakeman / Deborah Ellis.

Summary:

Jake and his older sister Shoshona, along with a busload of kids, visit their mother in prison regularly. But this time the journey turns into a series of misadventures, and the kids finds themselves on their own, hatching a plan to find the Governor and plead with him to pardon their moms.

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  • ISBN: 9781550415759
  • Physical Description: 201 p.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Fitzhenry & Whiteside ; c2007.

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General Note:
Silver Birch Award nominee, 2008.
Subject: Children of women prisoners > Fiction.
Boys > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.

Deborah Ellis is the internationally acclaimed author of a number of award-winning titles for children, including the Breadwinner trilogy, A Company of Fools, The Heaven Shop, and Our Stories, Our Songs. A peace activist and humanitarian field worker, Deborah has traveled the world to meet with and hear the stories of children marginalized by poverty, war, and illness.


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