Meet Sketch, a young rabbit of color, whose father is arrested and hauled off to jail for a crime he didn't commit. Sketch's father promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground where he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help-
I'm sorry. That's the plot of the A- Team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6kEsloMdE
Nope, it turns out that (spoiler alert) Sketch's dad really did do it and he catches SIX YEARS in the slammer according to the book.
Keep in mind that six years to a rabbit is the equivalent of getting 20 to life. The book doesn't actually say what Sketch's father did, but in order to get that much time on what must have been a first offense,* he must have murdered somebody. But who?
Went nuts at the Renaissance Fair, apparently. Tragic.
I joke, but the book is a good faith attempt to help kids whose parents end up being arrested. Evidently there are other books out there to help kids handle life's tragedies. What's simply awful is that such a market exists.
* I assume that it must have been a first offense, because if it had been a routine occurrence, then Sketch wouldn't have been traumatized. Ergo, no need for the book.
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