Mark Salzman's True Notebooks

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The book, True Notebooks, by Mark Salzman is about the author volunteering at juvenile hall to teach juvenile offenders how to write. The teenage offenders he teaches are high risk offenders meaning they are incarcerated for murder or other serious crimes. This book is a good read for anyone and is appropriate for this class because we are all learning how to write. This book is a good book for this class and any reading or writing class because it’s funny, sad and captivating and it should be kept as a required

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