The Honorable Prison Explained

The Honorable Prison
Author:Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
Country:USA
Language:English
Genre:Young adult novel
Published:1988 (Dutton)
Media Type:Print (hardback)
Pages:199
Isbn:9780525672388
Oclc:16831389

The Honorable Prison is a 1988 Young adult novel by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins. Based on de Jenkins' life, it is about Marta and her family who is placed under house arrest due to her newspaper editor father's criticism of a Latin American government. It won the 1989 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

Reception

The Honorable Prison has been compared to The Diary of a Young Girl.[1]

Kirkus Reviews wrote "Not just another child-in-war novel, this first novel strikes a particularly contemporary note in its unsentimental portrayal of the abuses of power and of a family's attempt to remain intact in adversity.",[2] and Publishers Weekly called it "An eloquent first novel.".[3]

The Honorable Prison has also been reviewed by The New York Times,[4] School Library Journal,[5] and The Horn Book Magazine.[6]

It is a 1988 CCBC Choices book,[7] and won the 1989 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.[8] [9]

External links

Library holdings of The Honorable Prison

Notes and References

  1. News: Associated Press . August 20, 1989 . Young Readers Give Raves To Story About Life Under Dictatorship . Deseret News. October 7, 2020.
  2. The Honorable Prison . January 1, 1987 . Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . October 7, 2020.
  3. The Honorable Prison . February 1, 1988 . Publishers Weekly . PWxyz LLC. October 7, 2020.
  4. News: June 19, 1988 . Children's Books (subscription required) . The New York Times . October 7, 2020.
  5. The Honorable Prison (Book Review) . 84 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201012020710/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/5759936/honorable-prison-book-review . dead . 2020-10-12 . School Library Journal . Media Source Inc. . February 1988 . 34 . 6 . October 7, 2020.
  6. New Voices, New Visions: Lyll Becerra de Jenkins . https://web.archive.org/web/20201010120114/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/9103110720/new-voices-new-visions-lyll-becerra-de-jenkins . dead . October 10, 2020 . Horn Book Guides . Media Source Inc. . October 7, 2020.
  7. Book: CCBC Choices . The language of the narrative crackles with sharp images and understated terror; the phrasing seems to be from another culture . 17 Fiction For Teenagers . 34 . Kathleen T. Horning . Ginny Moore Kruse . 1989 . Cooperative Children's Book Center . October 7, 2020.
  8. Web site: The Scott O'Dell Award . scottsdalelibrary.org . Scottsdale Public Library . October 7, 2020.
  9. March 1989 . Announcement . Deborah Stevenson . The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books . Johns Hopkins University Press . 42 . 7 . 163 . October 7, 2020.

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