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Just a note: the Andre Norton award is for sf and fantasy, not just scifi (a term all righteous science fiction writers abhor by the way, sort of like "juvies").
My Heart Leaps Up Roger Sutton 2006
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Whether they are medically needed or not, they are job providers, like the upstate prisons and juvies juvenile detention facilities which Cuomo specifically targeted in his remarks.
Henry J. Stern: The Governor's Speech Henry J. Stern 2011
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I could have been back in the lunchroom at school, not on a prison ranch full of juvies.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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I could have been back in the lunchroom at school, not on a prison ranch full of juvies.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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Lili, I think a short story on the juvies would be great, too!
Branded By Fire Spoiler Thread Nalini Singh 2009
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Whether they are medically needed or not, they are job providers, like the upstate prisons and juvies juvenile detention facilities which Cuomo specifically targeted in his remarks.
Henry J. Stern: The Governor's Speech Henry J. Stern 2011
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Its always fun when Lucas and Hawke share screen time, but the juvies take it to a whole new level.
Branded By Fire Spoiler Thread Nalini Singh 2009
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Alternative viewpoint on New Beginnings: "Frankly, if D.C. wants to beat its breast about 'local autonomy' and 'home rule' (home misrule in practice), it needs to relocate its juvenile facility within city limits so when the juvies run wild, there is no doubt about who has legal jurisdiction."
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When I was 12 and 13, I remember reading The Fog by James Herbert as well as other rather nasty books, but I also read plenty of juvies by Heinlein and Norton and others.
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The Tough Love camps juvies are 'sentenced' to don't offer visibility windows for audiences -- nor do they offer compensation in the form of financialisms ...
'Kid Nation' Could Spell Disaster for the Reality Genre 2007
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