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.
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Quotes
from The Upstate Boys
"We were gettin out or we were gonna die
tryin"
"We dug and clawed for the freedom that awaited
us on the other side of that barbed wire fence"
"Shep was running for his life, for the life of
every one of those boys"
"There was no turning back now...nowhere to go
but forward"
"They were the poor, the orphaned, the
dispossessed. They were the boys that had been sent upstate and came back as
heroes"
Author’s
Writing Inspiration
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, and murder struck a cord and I wanted to change the story.
About the Author
Ofer Aronskind 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 Ofer Aronskind 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.
To find more about Ofer and his books for young adults, please visit www.oferaronskind.com
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 Ofer Aronskind 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.
To find more about Ofer and his books for young adults, please visit www.oferaronskind.com
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