Healy has received a New Directions grant from the Garfield Foundation 'to create a living situation for boys in the juvenile detention system.' He will be living with and supervising the trio in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The three teens are now being released into the custody of Douglas Healy.

And fifteen-year-old convicted murderer Arjay Moran, 'a six-foot-five, 260 pound African American, built like a wrestler, with a barrel chest and huge arms,' has been incarcerated in Remsenville, an adult correctional facility. Meanwhile, Terrance Florian, a teen gang member from Chicago has been a resident in an alternative detention program at Lion's Head Island. Gecko, the thirteen-year-old getaway 'man' who is prone to 'not thinking,' subsequently finds himself in the Jerome Atchison Juvenile Detention Center. (It ends with that Infiniti flipped upside down and Gecko blacked out inside.) I want to meet the kid who isn't immediately sucked in by the high octane opening scene of THE JUVIE THREE.

The gap disappears in a heartbeat, split seconds to impact -' He presses on the gas, steering with one hand as he peers over his shoulder at the tons of metal hurtling toward him. A solid line of traffic is coming at him from the other direction. Now the acceleration is pressing on his chest, propelling him backward. One of them actually runs into the traffic cop, bowling him over in a spray of falling cases. The door of the shop bursts open, and out stumble Ruben and his two cronies, weighed down with huge armloads of video games. 'The smile disappears abruptly as his rearview changes. The officer and the car owner scramble helplessly in his wake. In the blink of an eye, the Infiniti is halfway down the next block. Gecko slaloms around him and then floors it. The cop steps right into the Infiniti's path, holding his hand out like, well, a cop.

The bald guy's dead ahead, and he's managed to flag down a traffic cop. The wheel is an extension of his hands, just the way he likes it. 'He turns left and left again, circling back onto Jackson. I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends' 'I get by with a little help from my friends

The juvie three by gordon korman