Jackpot by Nic Stone

While her mom is at work Rico basically runs her family while attending high school -  taking care of the budget,  seeing the bills are paid,  working herself after school and weekends at a convenience store,  shopping for groceries, and caring for her little brother -  and she really could use a break.

Working at the convenience store on Christmas Eve Rico sells a winning lottery ticket -  but it hasn’t been cashed yet.  Determined to find the kind, elderly woman she thinks bought the ticket,  Rico joins forces with her unbearably smug  and handsome football player classmate,  Zan Macklin. 

This YA romance is a fun read and may appeal to teen readers who loved Nic Stone’s Dear Martin and Dear Justyce.  --Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Welcome Back!

 The Passages Academy library Team would like to welcome you all back to our blog. Once again we are up and running for the school year and looking forward to bringing you all of our reading recommendations for incarcerated and detained youth and exciting programming that we have planned for the year. We will be starting with a program that, at this point in time, has never been more important: Banned Books Week. In our library we will be speaking to students about banned books and the importance of exercising our first amendment. --Claudio Leon