PRISONER 88 by Leah Pileggi (Charlesbridge, 2013) In 2007, debut novelist Leah Pileggi toured the Idaho Penitentiary in Boise, Idaho. She discovered that the youngest prisoner incarcerated had been ten years old in the 1880s. Caught in a wave of disbelief, she was inspired by the boy’s story. She knew she wanted to write about… Read more »
Thursday, October 10, 2013
