| Title | : | Rikers High |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0142417785 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-02-17 |
| Genre | : |
It started out as an innocent day for Martin, but it quickly turned into his worst nightmare-arrested for something he didn't even mean to do. And five months later, he is still locked up in jail on Rikers Island. Just when things couldn't get worse, Martin gets caught in a fight between two prisoners, and his face is slashed. He's scarred forever, but one good thing comes from the attack-Martin is transferred to a part of Rikers where inmates must attend high school. When he meets his caring and understanding teacher, will Martin open up and learn from his situation? Or will he be consumed by prison and getting revenge on his attackers?
Editorial : From School Library Journal Grade 8 Up—Martin Stokes is awaiting trial at Rikers Island, a New York City correctional facility. His alleged crime is steering: telling an undercover police officer where to buy marijuana in his neighborhood. Riding back to Rikers on a bus after his court date is rescheduled, Martin gets caught between two boys fighting and is cut in the face with a blade. He is assigned to a new unit, and the cut is both the first thing the boys in Sprung #3 notice about him and a metaphor for the indelible mark that prison will leave. In the new unit, Martin attends school for the first time on the Island. The plot is episodic, reflecting both the repetitiveness of daily existence in jail and its instability: one day the house is enjoying the fruits of its commissary visit; the next, the boys are being strip-searched after an apathetic teacher loses his metal chalk holder. Volponi, himself a teacher on Rikers Island for six years, brings to life a believable range
To name a few. For instance, the author confuses a figure-eight knot with an unknot, shortly after casually mentioning that his intuition of space is "fairly well developed".
Another thing that annoys me as a mathematician is the author's "personal digressions", trying to explain how the minds of mathematicians work and why mathematics can be beautiful in the same way as arts and music. It has everything you need from fly patterns and how to fish them. (In fact, as Margulis showed me, I never could have done anyway).
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