Doing Time Online — Jan Siebold

Twelve-year-old Mitch is at the police station.

His "punishment" is to chat online with a nursing home resident twice a week for the next month. What could Mitch and some old person possibly talk about?

But Wootie Hayes has plenty to say, about how she got her name, how much she misses her home, and how she hates bingo. And she also wants to know how Mitch got into trouble.

It's all because of something that happened during the summer -- a practical joke that went too far...