Books with title The Juvie Three

Tel, the blacksmith's son, was a Two until someone stole his father's tools, livelihood, and dignity. No longer able to live among the craftsmen on the second terrace of the city, Tel's family is consigned to work as day-laborer Threes in the squalor of the third terrace. Seeing his mother in poverty is hard enough, but seeing his father broken is too much for Tel to bear.But the Lu is coming. Tel has one chance - in the ancient ritual battle of the classes - to win back his family's honor. And he will do whatever it takes.

In the Chronicles of the Kings, there are stories of a band of elite warriors. But before their daring feats became legendary, David's mighty men were teenage boys serving an upstart king. Benaiah toils in the burial trenches of stinking battlefields to earn enough food to fill his belly. He's an outsider in the land of Israel, set apart from God's chosen people by fair skin and eerie eyes. But an angel and a prophet unveil a startling destiny. When he travels with Samuel to anoint a shepherd boy from Bethlehem, Benaiah swears to see David safely to his throne. But not alone.He must seek out the Three, a trio of warriors whose monstrous strength makes them unstoppable. Clues to their whereabouts have been laced through the lessons of Job. Poetic descriptions of a valley of horses and the storehouses of snow lead Benaiah into the hidden fringes of heaven. But his quest twists into a flight to the finish when whispers of the boys' existence reach their Fallen fathers.A covertly anointed shepherd boy. A trio of half-human mongrels. And the captain who would lead them into legends.

Emily Reid, Ramona Cass and Allison Wallen have been best friends since they were thirteen. Twelve years later, they're each leading very different lives. Emily has settled down to be a mother of five, but is having her doubts. Ramona is rapidly traveling the globe but can't help wonder if she's running from something. Allison seems happily engaged--until her whole world is turned upside down. What will happen with these women, where will they go, and where will life lead them?

Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car.Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago.Arjay Moran killed someone.All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance. Douglas Healy, a former juvenile delinquent himself, is running an experimental halfway house in New York City, where he wants to make a difference in the lives of kids like Gecko, Terence, and Arjay.Things are going well until one night Healy is accidentally knocked unconscious while trying to break up a scuffle among the boys. Terrified of the consequences, they drop him off at a hospital and run away. When Healy wakes up, he has no memory of them or the halfway house. Afraid of being sent back to Juvie, the guys hatch a crazy scheme to continue on as if the group leader never left.But if the boys are discovered, their second chance will be their last. . . . An ALSCA Notable Book, 2009* "[T]hese kids are living minute to minute, where one false step may haunt them forever. . . . [B]e prepared for high demand." -Booklist, starred review"This novel is signature Korman." -School Library Journal

Tel, the blacksmith's son, was a Two until someone stole his father's tools, livelihood, and dignity. No longer able to live among the craftsmen on the second terrace of the city, Tel's family is consigned to work as day-laborer Threes in the squalor of the third terrace. Seeing his mother in poverty is hard enough, but seeing his father broken is too much for Tel to bear. But the Lu is coming. Tel has one chance - in the ancient ritual battle of the classes - to win back his family's honor. And he will do whatever it takes.