Lockdown

Name: Lockdown
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9781449824778

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/14/2010

Categories: Children's Fiction, African American & Black Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and a two-time Newbery Honor recipient, Walter Dean Myers has been called "one of the most important writers of children's books of our age" (Kirkus Reviews). Lockdown is the powerful tale of 14-year-old Reese Anderson, who has spent 22 months in a tiny cell at a "progress center." Living in fear and isolation, Reese begins looking within himself to find a way out of the prison system. "The claustrophobia felt by this likable kid trapped in a cruel environment is masterfully evoked..."-Kirkus Reviews

About Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and a three-time National Book Award Finalist as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott Kingâ€“Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lars on November 14, 2010

Start your story with a fourteen-year-old boy. He’s African-American. His father is not always around, and is abusive when he is. His mother is an addict. Most of the kids he knows are thugs. He’s doing time for stealing a doctor’s prescription pad. Locked up in a dirty, tough New York juvenile faci......more

Goodreads review by Additeenlibrarian on March 03, 2010

Walter Dean Myers has spent a lot of time with teenagers, inside and outside of juvenile detention centers, and it shows. This book about 14-year-old Reese in juvie lockup is not full of perfect happy endings and miracle cures. Reese isn't a bad guy, though he was born into bad circumstances and has......more

Goodreads review by Imani on August 27, 2015

The book "LockDown" was interesting because Walter Dean Myers explains how Reese's situation is difficult and planning on how him and Toon are gonna make their way out of Progress. The reason why Reese is in a difficult situation is because he got caught up stealing meds for a drug dealer named Fred......more

Goodreads review by Phoebe on January 16, 2012

Quick read, but has some language. Story of a 15 year old boy who is in jail for stealing a drug prescription pad and trying to figure out how to straighten out his life when he gets out.......more

Goodreads review by Lia on March 21, 2019

The book "Lockdown" tells the story about a boy named Reece who explains how he acted and how he survived in a juvenile detention center. I loved this book, and I loved the protagonist. At first, I was only interested in the fights that happened in this book but once Reece shared his thoughts more I......more