This is a true tale of a teenage girl who, in 1983, refused to go to school and became a ward of Quebec’s juvenile system, eventually making her way to The Farm. It questions the use of incarceration as a means of dealing with youth protection cases, and it offers a rare glimpse inside one of Quebec’s oldest juvenile detention centres. The Shawbridge Boys Farm, just north of Montreal Quebec, has been reforming children for more than a hundred years. Thousands of stories can be collected from the children, adults, and seniors who have lived on “The Farm”. This is a story of just one of them, but it can’t be told without including many about the kids who were there with her.
1. We Don’t Need No Education
Pink Floyd
Music is a universal language that everyone understands. Each chapter title is a song that lent its voice to the author when she was a youth. The sound track of Erika's adolescence has become the soundtrack of the the book. This, however, is by no means an exhaustive list.
1. We Don’t Need No Education
2. Hotel California
3. Sweet Leaf
4. Crazy Train
5. Over The Hills And Far Away
6. Here For A Good Time
7. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
8. Glass Onion
9. Needle And The Damage Done
10. Take The Long Way Home
11. Another One Bites The Dust
12. Me And Bobbie McGee
13. You Could Have Been A Lady
14. The Chain
15. Bad Company
16. You’ve Got A Friend
17. No More Mr. Nice Guy
18. Twisted Daisies
19. Roxanne
20. I Shot The Sheriff
21. Back Door Man
22. Freedom
Dedicated to the memory of Michele Thibault, Tina Poux, Christina Cain, and Tiffany Mackenzie, the four young girls who lost their lives in the Le Village fire on January 19, 1990.
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