Tamara's Teardrops
The Tamara’s Teardrops series follows Tamara French as she tries to rebuild her life after release, meet the conditions of parole, and adjust to living with a foster family. Freedom does not erase the past, and returning to the outside world brings new rules, emotional triggers, damaged relationships, and consequences she cannot simply leave behind.
These realistic young adult novels explore juvenile justice, foster care, trauma, re-entry, and the difficult work of learning to trust. Tamara is determined to move forward, but when everything that can go wrong seems to do exactly that, survival may depend on choices no teenager should have to make alone.
Begin with the award-winning Tattooed Teardrops and follow Tamara through four emotionally intense stories of setbacks, resilience, and the search for a future that belongs to her.
Readers will appreciate the realistic details about Tamara’s release, her issues dealing with a foster family, her emotional triggers, and the challenges facing someone trying to maintain the conditions of parole. For those teens who love books where all that can go wrong does go wrong (isn’t that almost all of them?), this is a winner. – School Library Journal
P.D. Workman’s fictional Tattooed Teardrops and Tewhan Butler’s nonfiction title America’s Massacre: The Audacity of Despair and a Message of Hope top this year’s In the Margins (ITM) Book Awards. The selection committee, operating under Library Services for Youth in Custody, selected these winning works among books by, for, and about kids living in the margins. – Library Services for Youth in Custody
Tattooed Teardrops
Two Teardrops
Tortured Teardrops
Vanishing Teardrops
