The Honorable Prison

The Honorable Prison has been compared to The Diary of a Young Girl.^[3]

Kirkus Reviews wrote "Not just another child-in-war novel, this first novel strikes a particularly contemporary note in its unsentimental portrayal of the abuses of power and of a family's attempt to remain intact in adversity.",^[4] and Publishers Weekly called it "An eloquent first novel.".^[5]

The Honorable Prison has also been reviewed by The New York Times,^[6] School Library Journal,^[7] and The Horn Book Magazine.^[8]

It is a 1988 CCBC Choices book,^[9] and won the 1989 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.^[1][2]

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