ValleyReads

LA Youth magazine article
http://www.layouth.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=75

Opposing Viewpoints
http://www.prisonpotpourri.com/JUVENILES/A%20Few%20Words%20About%20Juvenile%20Death%20Penalty%20-%20from%20Tampa%20Bay%20Online.html

Proposition 21
http://primary2000.sos.ca.gov/VoterGuide/Propositions/21.htm
http://www.4children.org/news/100pr21.htm

National Center for Juvenile Justice

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Juvenile justice issues

Human Rights Watch

Juvenile Justice, Frontline from PBS

Juvenile Crime Statistics

How to find Juvenile Crime Statistics

Law Enforcement and Juvenile Crime  (do not print the document)

Trying Children as Adults

Does Trying Juveniles as Adults Work?

Visit this site to learn the proper MLA format for all different kinds of citations. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Visit this site to create electronically a list of works cited.  It is a free service that will format everything for you, but you must create an account and then log in so you can save your works cited page. http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php

Fake ID by Walter Sorrells
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the past that haunts her and her mother which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.

The Lovely Bones by Ann Sebold
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

Damage by A. M. Jenkins
Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.

The Smithsonian Book of the First Ladies
Collection of biographies of the forty-three first ladies of the United States, discussing their achievements in the White House and beyond, with eleven essays highlighting women’s issues throughout history