Juvie, written by Steve Watkins, is about teenager Sadie Windas who is the star of her basketball team, popular in school, and gets good grades. Sadie also has to go to juvie for 6 months to keep Clara,a partier, a bad mother, and her older siste, out of jail. The novel goes back and forth between the events leading up to juvie and her hardships in it.