Children growing up around prisons has been the subject of several books lately. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T Cook is one of the latest to to have a main character living at a prison. Perry Cook lives with his mother in a minimum security prison of nonviolent offenders until a new local district attorney finds out and feels that Perry's life would be better by living with him and his new family. As Perry tries to adjust to his new way of life, he is able to still visit his mother and the other inmates. As he visits them, he decides to interview them for a school project,  and he finds out the true reason his mother is in prison. Fans of Jerry Spinelli's The Warden's Daughter  and Gennifer Choldenko's Newbery winner Al Capone Does My Shirts will not be able to put this novel down, especially as Perry tries to find out the truth behind his mom's incarceration.