Prisoner 88

Name: Prisoner 88
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Leah Pileggi
ISBN: 9781490601328

Author: Leah Pileggi

Narrator: Tom Picasso

Unabridged: 3 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/20/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction, Beginner Readers

Synopsis

Based on a true story, Prisoner 88 is the story of ten-year-old Jake, sent to the Old Idaho Penitentiary in 1885 to serve a five-year sentence for manslaughter. Issues of racism, justice, literacy, and frontier life inform James s story, with a compelling first-person voice that instantly transports the reader to the 19th-century American West.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Drucilla

Actual rating: 2.75 stars. Inspired by an true story, although interesting and quite readable, it just didn't have the oomph to justify a three star rating. Perhaps if it had been fleshed out a little more.......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

The book is very interesting and well-written, but the bad language and graphic scenes are not for children. Perhaps, seventh grade and beyond.......more

Goodreads review by D.G.

This is a wonderful little middle grade historical fiction novel. Based on true facts found by the author of a 10 year old boy convicted falsely for manslaughter and imprisoned with grown men back in 1885. The author does a wonderful job of conveying this overwhelming and harsh world from the point......more