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1) Flunked
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School, where all of the teachers are former villains, including the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.
2) Scar Island
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
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.
3) Switched
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 4
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the outside, the Dozier School for Boys in Florida looked utterly charming. Carefully manicured lawns and attractive plantings adorned walkways and drives. But the reality of life at Dozier was ugly. In 2008, almost one hundred years after the reform school's founding, Robert Straley and Roger Dean Kiser discovered they shared similar abusive experiences while students at the Dozier School for Boys. They recalled vicious punishments at a campus...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to reform school after stabbing his abusive father, thirteen-year-old William befriends three boys with whom he works to tame horses before triggering a series of tragic events that brings them into a greater awareness of the world's cruelty and social norms.
7) On the hook
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Hector has always worked hard and minded his own business. He wants to be captain of his school's chess team, go to college, and help his family make their way to a better life someday. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Discipulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing. From that day forward, Hector's death hangs...
8) Fallen
Author
Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Luce is a new student at Sword & Cross, an unwelcoming boarding/reform school in Savannah, Georgia. Luce's boyfriend died under suspicious circumstances, and now she carries the guilt over his death with her as she navigates the unfriendly halls at Sword & Cross, where every student seems to have an unpleasant--even evil--history.
Author
Publisher
M. Frederick]
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Charlee Cox is a spoiled, second-generation prison guard in a minimum-security prison for women. His mother is the warden. The warden knows her lifelong bachelor son is up to something in her prison, but she needs proof--before he ruins his life and hers. A tunnel, conjugal visits, a spy on a diet, and forbidden love all lead to the only escape in the prison's history. And only Charlee could get away with it.
10) Oscuros
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
11) Fallen in Love
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of four love stories featuring Shelby, Miles, and other characters from the Fallen series.