Sharon Charde, author of I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent, recently sat down (virtually) with Mary Weiss, watch the video here!
I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent
How Poetry Changed a Group of At-Risk Young Women
After the death of her child, a grief-stricken psychotherapist volunteers as a poetry teacher at a residential treatment facility for “delinquent” girls. Here, their mutual support nourish and enrich each other, though not without large quantities of drama and recalcitrance. For fans of the acclaimed movies Stand and Deliver and The Freedom Writers Diary comes I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent: How Poetry Changed a Group of At-Risk Young Women.