Bibliograph

The reformatory, Tananarive Due

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Label

The reformatory, Tananarive Due

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 570)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The reformatory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1404459251

Responsibility statement

Tananarive Due

Summary

"Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it's too late." --, Publisher's description

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