"Because no one is faithful. Not parents, teachers, guards, boyfriends, or girlfriends. No one. What's it feel like to know that someone in your life is faithful? Is that what real love is?" Seventeen year old Shavonne is in a correctional facility for juveniles. She had a baby when she was almost 16 who was placed with a foster mom. Shavonne is always angry and afraid. An inner voice tells her to "run away, hit somebody, curse somebody out." She's compelled to follow the inner voice...until Mr. Delpopolo tells her she can "either choose one way or the other. And the choice sets you in a certain direction." This heartbreaking story of frightfully abused children stresses the importance of forgiveness, faith, and hope.
Gateway Award Preliminary Nominee 2013-14
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