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The reformatory : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The reformatory : a novel / 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982188344
  • ISBN: 1982188340
  • Physical Description: 570 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Saga Press, 2023.
Subject: Florida School for Boys > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
African Americans > Segregation > Florida > Fiction.
Reformatories > Florida > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Ghost stories.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Bronson Branch FIC DUE (Text) 35403424223340 Fiction Checked out 01/04/2027
Coldwater Branch FIC DUE (Text) 35401425292108 Fiction Available -
Sherwood Branch FIC DUE (Text) 35405423992056 Fiction Checked out 12/09/2026


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