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1) Scar Island
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English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
2) Switched
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Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 4
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English
Description
Gilly and her friends must prepare for a giant invasion after Jack plants magic beans, earning him a spot in Fairy Tale Reform School and reminding Gilly how good it feels to be bad.
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English
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2023 Read Widely: North America & The Caribbean
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Award Winning Adult Fiction
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
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"Milton and Marlo Fauster are sent to the circle of Heck for kids who sass back, where the new vice principal, Lewis Carroll, has them debate in a War of the Words broadcast throughout the underworld, with a reward of heaven for the winner and the ultimate punishment, the real h-e-double-hockeysticks, for the loser"--