The Warden’s Daughter

Written by Jerry Spinelli

This is a great book about the life of a girl who has lost her mother, and her father is the prison warden. It focuses on how she interacts with the female prisoners. One inmate is sent to her house, and she wants the woman to be a mother to her. When one inmate who she had befriended dies, it tears her up inside and she doesn’t know how to handle it. To top that off she is a 12 year old turning into a teenager. She deals with a friend who wants her to get an autograph of a killer. Her life becomes hard and she can’t seem to handle it, but the ending is a great one.

Review by Sharon Viall, Jefferson Jr. High Media Center
Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5 stars)
Interest Level: 5th grade to Adults

The Warden’s Daughter
Written by Jerry Spinelli
Alfred A. Knopf
343 pages
Release Date: January 3, 2017

Tags:

2017 Middle Grade Fiction, 2017 YA Fiction, Family Fiction, Grief Fiction, Jerry Spinelli, Prisoners Fiction, Prisons Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Sharon Viall, Teenage Girls Fiction, The Warden's Daughter