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" Why we&amp;#039;re buzzing about it: We are so excited for ABC Family&amp;#039;s thriller series Twisted to start and this dark novel is perfect to hold us over until the premiere on June 11! Kindness for Weakness ls about a guy with a painful past you&amp;#039;ll be rooting for from beginning to end. What it&amp;#039;s about: Fifteen-year-old James grew up in an unstable home with a drug-additcted borther, neglectful mother, and his mom&amp;#039;s abusive boyfriend. James tried to look up to his older brother as a role model. Instead, James gets caught in the middle of his brother&amp;#039;s drug deal and is sentence to a year in a juvenile detention center. In this coming-of-age tale, kind-hearted James struggles to resist the all-consuming vicious cycle of cruelty in the prison. James&amp;#039; English teacher sends him books during the sentence, which James uses as a mental escape. As the brutality of the prison guards and the pressure to join a gang with the other teens heightens, James fights for the answer to the lurking question: Will his kindess forever be mistaken as weakness? Have you read Kindness for Weakness? Tell us what you thought about it below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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