K12> State Kid -- Network Nuggets
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- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:29:51 -0600
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Subject: State Kid -- Network Nuggets
*** [[[ STATE KID ]]] ***
http://www.statekid.com
He was a foster child.
He ran away from abuse.
He went to juvenile prison.
He ended up running the place.
He surprised an awful lot of people.
This is for middle-grade teachers of English,
and possibly for counselors or those with an
interest in foster care.
"State Kid" is an online Dickens-style serialized
novel, just nearing completion. The story is about
Billy, a runaway foster child. It's fiction with
a basis in fact: author George Pollock, a sometime
English teacher and publisher from the Boston area,
was himself a foster child from age 5 to 17.
The website has little advertising.
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State Kid is a remarkable read. As the character
Billy grows up, the moral decisions he faces become
more complex, and he really comes through in the
end. Basically, he writes his way out of jail. Solid
character development! The reading level is around
grade 5 or even less, yet the vivid writing tends
to glue you to the screen. With the author's
permission, here's an excerpt...
"Get up, young man," a gruff voice said. Billy
lifted his dirt-streaked face to see a gray-bearded
man offering a hand. "Get up and give me your shirt,
quickly. These dogs are stupid and easily confused."
The barking was louder. Billy looked in its direction,
then at the old man. He took the man's hand and got
to his feet. In no position to argue, and not having
come up with plan C, Billy took off his shirt and
handed it over.
"That way," the man said, pointing "No more than two
miles. A big stone structure. Wait there. Go!"
Billy dragged himself off. The old man backtracked,
dragging the shirt on the ground. The dogs soon
reached a spot where the scent went in different
directions as well as in circles. They rushed around,
yapping in confusion, all wanting to go in a
different direction.
"Damn," said Captain Wally O'Toole. "They lost him.
I don't believe it. How did they lose him?"
"This kid is something else," another police officer
said.
"Like a damn Indian," said another.
"He's a kid, " said Captain O'Toole. "That's all.
We'll get him. Let's go."
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