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Jan 10, 2014 07:50PM
The book was published in the mid to late 80's. A girl runs away from home and reform school. I think the girls name was Shelley. A judge who was inspecting the facility learns about her case and gets her released. There was something about her rights being violated. That is all I can remember.
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Are you thinking of this?Worldcat.org
Search results for 'kw:runaways reform school' > '1970..1989' > 'Book' > 'Fiction' > 'English' > 'Juvenile'
The hideaway
Author: Barbara Corcoran
Publisher: New York : Atheneum, 1987.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Database: WorldCat
Summary:
After running away from a Massachusetts reform school, fifteen-year-old Tom, with the help of his sister, hides from the police until he can clear himself of a drunk driving charge.
Google Books - Shelley is in this book.
No, it was definitely a girl. For some reason I think her name is Shelly. I remember at one point she returns to the school with a red jacket.
Google Books searchshelley runaways release subject:"juvenile fiction"
Using Adolescent Fiction That Deals with Current Problems ...
by S Schwartz - 1976 - Cited by 4 - Related articles
Jan 16, 1976 - Joanne Greenberg; "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath; and "Run Shelley,. Run" by ...... Many were runaways or truants, or preferredsleeping around to sleeping at home. (p. ... Shelley's release from prison doesn't automatically end her problems.
Run Shelley Run by Gertrude Samuels
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RUN, SHELLEY, RUN!
By Gertrude Samuels
More case history than heroine, Shelley is labeled a Person in Need of Supervision at the request of her alcoholic mother and, after several escapes from a prisonlike state training school, ends up in solitary confinement just one step away from a mental breakdown. Shelley's life, at least up to the appearance of a sympathetic judge who takes a personal interest in securing her freedom, traces the pattern by which neglected children and minor offenders may be sentenced to institutions -- and exposed there to drugs, enforced homosexuality and their more hardened peers. This chain of injustice has its own grim fascination, though if Shelley herself were somewhat less blonde and blameless, the temptation to see her as an exceptional victim would be less, and her plight would make weightier demands on the reader's understanding and humanity.
Pub Date:Feb. 20th, 1974
ISBN:0595121454
Page count:175pp
Publisher:T. Y. Crowell
Original cover.
New American Library, New York, 1975. Mass Market Paperback
