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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Leslie Connor

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 5, 2017

A Middle Grade pick for readers exploring All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook.

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Who it’s for
A warm, serious middle-grade story about love, forgiveness, and finding where you belong.
Themes
Love and forgiveness, Family separation and reunion, Finding a sense of home
Genres
Orphans & Foster Kids, Friendship, Alternative Family Stories

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About this book

A soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful middle grade novel, perfect for fans of Wonder and When You Reach Me, from Leslie Connor, the award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch. From comes Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska.

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His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth—and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the “outside” world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest for answers about her past crime. As he gets closer to the truth, he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter where they come from . . . but can he find a way to tell everyone what home truly means? Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids’ Indie Next List Pick

Where Home Begins

A warm, serious middle-grade story about love, forgiveness, and finding where you belong.

Come here for

  • A heartfelt take on family, resilience, and what makes a home.
  • A grounded story with room for tenderness and difficult truths.

Expect

  • An immersive read centered on an eleven-year-old navigating separation from his mother.
  • Themes of forgiveness and love, without pretending hard circumstances are simple.

Where it sits

Orphans & Foster Kids65%
Friendship34%
Alternative Family Stories26%

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Publisher categories

  • Parent-Child Stories
  • Alternative Family Stories
  • City & Town Life
  • Country Life
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  • Mysteries & Detective Stories
  • Growing Up
  • Friendship
  • Values & Virtues
Authors
Leslie Connor
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
December 5, 2017
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Love and forgiveness · Family separation and reunion · Finding a sense of home
Reading lane
Parent-Child Stories