All Day : A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island (Hardcover)

from Carolee888

The cover caught my eye, the young woman is flaming red and with her chin held up high. In this case the cover gives you some insight into the book. Liza Jessie Peterson is foremost an artist but she had to face reality and get a steady paying job to keep on living. Her best opportunity was teach...

from lahochstetler

Liza Peterson does a valuable job, one that many would consider thankless. Peterson teaches teenagers incarcerated at Riker's Island. Her class is a rotating cast of characters. Her students are awaiting trial, transfer, or their eighteenth birthdays, when they will be sent elsewhere. Peterson ha...

from Carolee888

The cover caught my eye, the young woman is flaming red and with her chin held up high. In this case the cover gives you some insight into the book. Liza Jessie Peterson is foremost an artist but she had to face reality and get a steady paying job to keep on living. Her best opportunity was teach...

from lahochstetler

Liza Peterson does a valuable job, one that many would consider thankless. Peterson teaches teenagers incarcerated at Riker's Island. Her class is a rotating cast of characters. Her students are awaiting trial, transfer, or their eighteenth birthdays, when they will be sent elsewhere. Peterson ha...