Welcome to Read Along Radio, the podcast that turns reading struggles into reading success with exciting and thrilling stories.
In case this is the first time you’re tuning in to Read Along Radio, or just as a review, in the last episodes, we met Robin Kould as he started his first day at a new school in a new life. He encountered two kids spray-painting a dog and tried to stop them, but ended up being blamed for their crime after the two kids ran away leaving him holding a can of spray paint. Robin wound up getting assigned 100 hours of community service work at the local pound, receiving a three day suspension from school, and being required to tour the local jail. We got a glimpse of Robin’s special gift of being able to communicate with dogs. We also accompanied him as he toured the local jail as part of his court assigned “disposition”. An incident with an inmate cut his tour short, but Robin experienced enough to know he never wants to be put there.
After finishing his three-day suspension from school, Robin has a second try at a first day of school. He met Mary Yen, an eighth-grade classmate who wants to be a lawyer. Meeting her may have been worse than his jail tour and three-day suspension combined. She had a know-it-all attitude that made him wish he’d never met her.
In this episode, Robin has to explain to his Uncle Damian how he ended up in juvenile court. We learn how his uncle reacts, and Robin decides to prove his innocence and clear his name. He also finds out more about Greg Peterson, an inmate he met during his jail tour. He still doesn’t like Mary Yen, but learning more about her background helps him understand her better—and she is the only classmate who talks to him. Everyone else thinks he is a juvenile delinquent. More than ever, he wants to prove his innocence and change people’s perception of him, and he thinks he knows how.
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