Heart-wrenching and real, Juvie is the story of two sisters grappling
with sacrifice, accountability--and who'll be there to help you up after
you take the fall.
Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one -- she's the star
player on her AAU basketball team, she gets good grades, she dates a
cute soccer player, and she tries to help out at home. Not like her
older sister, Carla, who leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with
Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when both sisters are
caught up in a drug deal -- wrong place, wrong time -- it falls to Sadie
to confess to a crime she didn't commit to keep Carla out of jail and
Lulu out of foster care. Sadie is supposed to get off with a slap on the
wrist, but somehow, impossibly, gets sentenced to six months in juvie.
As life as Sadie knew it disappears beyond the stark bars of her cell,
her anger -- at her ex-boyfriend, at Carla, and at herself -- fills the
empty space left behind. Can Sadie forgive Carla for getting her mixed
up in this mess? Can Carla straighten herself out to make a better life
for Lulu, and for all of them? Can Sadie survive her time in juvie with
her spirit intact?