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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Name: All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
ISBN: 9780062333476

Leslie Connor

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 5, 2017

Reading lane: Growing Up

A Middle Grade pick for readers exploring All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook.

Growing Up Bullying Abuse & Healing middle

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Why This Clicks

Where Home Begins

A warm, serious middle-grade story about love, forgiveness, and finding where you belong.

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A heartfelt take on family, resilience, and what makes a home.
A grounded story with room for tenderness and difficult truths.

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An immersive read centered on an eleven-year-old navigating separation from his mother.
Themes of forgiveness and love, without pretending hard circumstances are simple.

Book Details

Authors: Leslie Connor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: December 5, 2017
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Growing Up · Bullying
Reading lane: Growing Up

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A soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful middle grade novel, perfect for fans of Wonder and When You Reach Me, from Leslie Connor, the award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch. From comes Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth—and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the “outside” world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest for answers about her past crime. As he gets closer to the truth, he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter where they come from . . . but can he find a way to tell everyone what home truly means? Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids’ Indie Next List Pick