Juvie Three

Gordon, Korman(2008). The Juvie Three. NY: Hyperion Books

Douglas Healy is running an experimental halfway house, where he wants to give three boys a chance.  These three boys, Gecko, Terence, and Arjay have spent time in juvenile detention centers.  These go wrong when Terence tries to leave the halfway house and Healy ends up hitting his head and loses consciousness.  The boys take him a hospital and then he loses his memory.  Healy is then transported to a psychiatric hospital, so the boys know that they have to break him out.  The boys broke Mr. Healy out of the psych ward and Mr. Healy regained his memory.  I thought this was great story for ages 12 and up.  It had great moral principles to the story. As a teacher this is a great book to use to teach about moral values.   Kohlberg’s moral development of postconventional is a most of the story.  Because laws and social rules conflict throughout the reading of this story.