The Reformatory - Tananarive Due

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A gloriously creepy Deep South horror story based on the infamous Dozier School for boys, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and Nothing But Blackened Teeth . Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts - only they have their own motivations... You're in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tanarive Due hit it out of the park. - Stephen King A vividly realized page-turner, which is at once an ingenious ghost story, a white-knuckle adventure, and an illuminating if infuriating look back at a shameful period in American jurisprudence. - Kirkus Reviews With fully realized characters and well-placed twists, Due ratchets up the tension until the final, extraodrinary showdown. - Booklist

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