The Upstate Boys
Release Date: 8/31/15
Summary from Goodreads:
John Shepherd (Shep) is a kid of the streets. An orphan bounced
around from one foster family to another until he winds up in a juvenile
detention center in upstate New York. While incarcerated, Shep and his fellow
inmates are subjected to regular beatings and forced hard labor by the corrupt
warden who runs the facility along with his squadron of armed guards.
But Shep is no ordinary minor and has no intention of spending the rest of his
youth behind bars. Shep and a handful of other inmates hatch a bold plan which
culminates in a spectacular turn of events changing the lives of the young
prisoners and their captors forever. The Upstate Boys is a tale of adventure,
redemption and the unbreakable will of the human spirit. A must read for young
and old alike, for anyone who ever dreamed of freedom and especially for those
who made it happen.
My inspiration
for The Upstate Boys came when I read an Article in the NY
Times about the Arthur G. Dozier school for boys. The stories of the
abuse, neglect and murder struck a cord and I wanted to change the story.
About the Author:
OferAronskind
was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and came to the United States at the age of six.
He grew up in Little Neck, Queens, on the outskirts of New York City. He
attended SUNY Albany then took a year off after college where he spent the year
in Los Angeles writing screenplays. The following year he came back to NY to
attend St. John's University School of Law and graduated in 1989. He went to
work at the law firm of Weil Gotshal&Manges as a real estate attorney and
worked there until 1997. He now lives in Short Hills, New Jersey with his three
sons and is a real estate investor.
Ofer, father of 3 boys, has had a lifelong passion for reading and writing. He
began writing his first book, Summer Sleep Away the summer he sent his own sons
off to camp for their first time. Ofer spent endless nights sitting at the edge
of their beds telling his children stories from his own years in camp. As the
boys embarked on their journey they encouraged Ofer to turn his stories into a
book… so became Mattie Kleinfeld and the beginning of Ofer’s prolific career.
New Jersey resident OferAronskind remembers what it was like to be 12 years
old: the challenges of middle school, making new friends, attending summer camp
for the first time, having your first crush. By drawing on events from his
life, as well as those of his three teenage sons, he has been able to vividly
recreate some of life’s most memorable experiences in his young-adult novels.
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