Stranger Danger - Signed Copy (shipping included in price)

Stranger Danger takes you on a riveting ride of the Los Angeles juvenile justice and foster care systems through the eyes and experience of sixteen year old Charity. Charity is a bright and studious girl who wants nothing more than to escape into the fantasy world of her favorite novels, but finds herself entangled in a reality that punishes poverty and exploits innocence. After escaping the dangerous life of gangs and drugs that proved to not be as friendly and familial as she had hoped, Charity resorts to stealing food and clothing to address the deep poverty that she and her family were experiencing. After being caught stealing a pack of underwear, Charity finds herself handcuffed, sentenced and spending the remaining years of her childhood in and out of juvenile hall and foster care. While in foster care, Charity is exploited by the very people that were in charge of protecting her, and whom she trusted were providing her a way out of poverty. In this sweeping narrative, Charity weaves her horrific story of experiencing systems that were benevolently disguised as protection, with the realities and intersection of poverty, systemic injustice, exploitation and punishment.