reformatories

Awakening in the Empire of the Apes, Hayashida learns that he's the savior prophecied by the Ancient Text and must travel to Mount Poplokis and retrieve the ancient Sword of Lightning to achieve his destiny before defeating his sworn enemy, the dreaded That Guy.

Masked Takenouchi becomes a star athlete and the Four Great Ones become goodwill ambassadors when the sumo club becomes all the rage at Cromartie High.

When timid Milton and his older, scofflaw sister Marlo die in a marshmallow bear explosion at Grizzly Mall, they are sent to Heck, an otherworldly reform school from which they are determined to escape.

Cromartie High's star contender for the All-Japan Kingpin Championship is trapped in America, forcing the team to replace him with Kamiyama, who hopes to win the title of top thug in Japan.

Escaping the Splurch Academy infirmary using stolen keys, Cody Mack and friends prepare for Halloween and try to figure out Cody's dreams about a giant beetle that seems to be turning him into a monster.

Gilly's little sister Anna lands in reform school just in time to greet the strict new headmaster.

In the 1960s, Elwood is college-bound until he makes a mistake that lands him at a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose staff profess to shape inmates into upstanding young men but who routinely deliver vicious beatings and sexual abuse and make sure resisters disappear forever. The shocked Elwood takes Martin Luther King's pacifist approach to events, but friend Turner has other ideas. Whitehead researched the Florida Industrial School for Boys (later the Dozier Academy), where a secret mass grave was found after its 2011 closure.

A man reflects on his troubled childhood, when, at thirteen years old, he was sentenced to two years at a reformatory ranch in Colorado, where he and the other boys cared for untamed horses.

Following sentencing in the court of Judge Judas, eleven-year-old Milton and his older sister Marlo find themselves in Precocia, the circle of Heck for kids that grow up too fast.

"Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida"--OCLC.