reformatories

It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living.

Ian Hart has always been the kid most likely to be bullied, which is why he appreciates having agressive Devon as a friend--but when one of Devon's pranks goes terribly wrong Ian finds himself the youngest student in the Juvenile Academy for Noncompliant and Underachieving Students, otherwise know as reform school, and somehow he is going to have to learn how to stand up for himself.

"Things are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School. At least, that's what gilly's heard through the Enchantasia rumor mill. word is, notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management form Headmistress Flora, and he's locked down the school titghter than the Pied Piper's pants. Not that this news concerns gilly. she's been released from FTRS and is now attending Jack of All Trades School, where she gets to learn about different kinds of shoe leather and ways to measure feet. But when Gilly's little sister Anna gets whisked off to FTRS thanks to her troublemaking new friends, Hansel and Gretel, Gilly knows she's got to get Anna out of there."--Dust jacket.

Jonathan Grisby is the newest arrival at the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys. Despite the name, Slabhenge is more like a prison than a school - an ancient, crumbling fortress of gray stone rising up from the ocean. It is dark, damp, and dismal. And it is just the place Jonathan figures he deserves. Because Jonathan has done something terrible. And he's willing to accept whatever punishement he has coming.

"When Sleeping Beauty's nemesis breaks the Evil Queen out of the dungeon, Gilly and her friends at Fairy Tale Reform School must figure out how to stop Alva from terrorizing the village of Enchantasia--before she comes after the ones Gilly loves the most."--Provided by OCLC.

When Mattie Larimore is sent to reform school he uncovers a creepy conspiracy, led by Headmaster Rooney, to fix all the problem children, including Mattie's brother--for good.

"Siblings Charlotte and Tobias are trapped within a creepy reform school--and entangled in its dark secrets"--Provided by publisher.

Fifteen-year-old Anais Hendricks is sent to the Panopticon, a circular prison created so that the prisoners can always be observed.

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.

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.