Book Summary. T. Connor

My book report is about the very well written novel, ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE PERRY T. COOK by Leslie Conner. The book begins with a new guy brought in to begin anew. A man by the name Big Ed given to him by Perry, talks to Wendell telling him about and how Warden Daugherty does things and expects no more trouble from him or anyone else. Big Ed is one of the inmates but he as been there slightly longer than Perry and his mom and he is trusted to introduce newer inmates to the facility and help them settle in some. Perry is an eleven year old who was born and raised at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in Surprise, Nebraska. His mother, Jessica Cook, is being held for manslaughter, drinking and driving. Perry doesn't have any problems living in a prison, in fact he enjoys it. Almost everyone in the prison he's known since he can remember, to him they are his family.
Miss Maya, the Warden's niece, drives him to and back from school. Perry has a best friend who's name is Zoey Samuels. And Zoey for a while was angry a lot, so when Perry came a long and made her laugh they became friends quickly. Zoey knew where he was from but she didn't care and she didn't ask a lot of questions about why his mom was in the prison. Perry's life was great for him and his mom's parole day was coming up being followed by dreams of his mom's desires to give him the best on the outside life. But a problem comes up and stops the dreams of Jessica ever getting out. Thomas Vanleer, he will be very likable to start with since he tries for Zoey. But he quickly becomes the one who takes Perry away from Jessica and makes trouble for her parole and Warden. Perry now has a shadow of how a family works and what a father would feel like. Thomas does promise to take Perry to see his mother every Saturday and every Saturday one of Perry's old friends distracts Tom so Perry can have his time alone with his