Q&A: Paul Volponi
Posted by Daniel on August 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Mr. Volponi is a writer, journalist and teacher living in New York City. For six years he taught incarcerated teens on Rikers Island to read and write, and for six years taught teens in drug day-treatment centers, influencing many of his novels. To learn more about him and his books, visit www.paulvolponibooks.com
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Response by Paul Volponi
Posted by Daniel on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Noah and his friends go to a nearly all-white neighborhood with a plan: steal a car, sell it to a chop shop, and make some fast cash. But that never happens. Instead, Noah, a teen father, is the victim of a vicious beating that leaves him with a fractured skull. Was the attacker protecting his [...]
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RIKERS HIGH by Paul Volponi
Martin Stokes could hold his own in the tough New York City neighborhood where he grew up, but that’s nothing – nothing – compared to Riker’s Island. Martin’s been in the Riker’s Island jail for five months and counting, locked up for a crime he didn’t even mean to commit.
After his court date is delayed [...]
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