# The Honorable Prison

**Author:** Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
**Grade range:** Grades 6–10
**Age range:** 11–15
**First published:** 1988
**Page count:** 199
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780140329520`
**ISBN-10:** `0140329528`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-honorable-prison
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Because of the moral stand taken by her father, a newspaper editor who has persistently attacked the military dictator ruling their Latin American country, Marta and her family find themselves prisoners of the government.

## Themes

- freedom of speech
- political prisoners
- prisons, fiction
- newspapers, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 1989 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 1989 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 1989 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 1989 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winners, via Wikipedia — 1989 Scott O'Dell Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O%27Dell_Award_for_Historical_Fiction)

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