The Uroboros: A True Story About Overcoming A Troubled Childhood (Juvenile Delinquency & Juvenile Justice Book 4)

Unlike other juvenile delinquent stories written for at-risk youth, this short story also includes 10 thought-provoking review questions.

This true story about juvenile justice is an ideal resource for

• Juvenile justice assigned readings
• Corrections education assigned readings
• Child psychology assigned readings
• Family psychology assigned readings

Unlike other books about juvenile delinquency, teachers, parents and kids will find the subject matter and easy-to-read and understand style appropriate for

• Book reports
• Homeschooling
• Literacy programs
• Reading comprehension

The Uroboros is a snake biting its tail. This is a very old symbol that stands for the circle of life. As the snake bites its tail, it feeds on its own pain in a never-ending circle that goes round and round. As long as the snake continues to bites its tail, the circle of pain goes on. But when the snake quits biting its own tail, the pain stops and the snake grows strong.

My childhood was like the Uroboros. The fights between Mom and Dad started it all. They fought for as far back as I can remember.

Dad left when I was 11 years old. At first things were not too bad. At least there was no more fighting. I got to visit Dad every Sunday.

But then Mom and Dad began fighting through me. He would say bad things about Mom to me. Mom would say bad things about him to me. I was caught in the middle of their war of words.

Their words tore me apart. My guts felt like broken glass. My brain would not think past the pain. I was dying inside.

That’s when I decided that I wanted to die. I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills. I just wanted to go to sleep forever. But then they woke me up by pumping my stomach clean.

My life just kept going downhill.

I nearly failed the 7th grade. I spent most of 8th grade in special education. And I totally failed 9th grade.

Mom put me in an orphanage between 7th and 8th grade. By 9th grade I was on juvenile probation. The Juvenile court put me in a juvenile detention home twice and sent me to a state mental hospital for 77 days. I also spent 18 months in a juvenile reform school when I quit going to school at 16.

I was sure that I would end up in jail or prison or die in a street fight. My life seemed over before it had begun.

But then I figured out how to get my life together. It wasn’t easy. I had to change a lot of things about myself.

And I did!

Adapted from my autobiography, The Other Side of Delinquency, and written at a middle school reading level for troubled teens to learn from, I summarize my experiences growing up in a troubled family, multiple placements and school failures to grow up and become a happy and healthy adult.

Most other juvenile justice books and juvenile justice case studies discuss boring information like history and theory.

This one is all about the experience of surviving the juvenile justice system, from start to finish.

Purchase this e-book to learn what I discovered about turning my life around through a series of questions that young readers can use to personalize their own answers.