reformatories

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.

Looks at the events surrounding the closing of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida, a reform school that had been in use for one hundred years, in which several of the students were physically and sexually abused.

"New Hope Academy, or, as seventeen-year-old Jane Learning likes to call it, No Hope, is a Baptist reform school where Jane is currently being held captive. Of course, smart, sarcastic Jane has no interest in reforming, failing to see any benefit to pretending to play well with others. But then Hannah shows up, a gorgeous bad girl with fiery hair and an even stormier disposition. She shows Jane how to live a full and fulfilling life even when the world tells you you're wrong, and how to believe in a future outside the 'prison' walls. Jane soon learns, though, that Hannah is quietly battling some demons of her own"--Publisher's website.

When Cody Mack and the boys uncover an old, forgotten swimming pool hidden below the floor of Splurch Academy's gymnasium they think it may provide them with an escape route, but the pool is overflowing with evil, monstrous squids.

When Headmaster Farley's estranged sister takes over Splurch Academy, Cody and the other boys are pitted against their new classmates, the girls of Priscilla Prim Academy for Precious and Proper Young Ladies.

Formerly dead Milton Fauster tries to save his older sister Marlo from "eternal darnation" when she is sent to another educational level of the Underworld reform school known as Heck.

Cody Mack's misdeeds land him in a reformatory school, where he soon discovers that the principal and teachers are actual monsters with a sinister plan to alter the boys' brains.

Maxine, with the help of an over-enthusiastic genie, makes a wish that has everyone at the Fairy Tale Reform School focusing on producing a musical rather than figuring out how to combat Rumpelstiltskin.