Takashi Kamiyama finds himself at a notorious reform school, Cromartie High School, where he encounters teachers of questionable merit and a going away party for a gorilla.
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.
Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.
Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.
Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.
a story of betrayal and redemption in the deep south
Fisher, Robin Gaby
2010
Recounts the experiences of Michael O'McCarthy and Robert Straley, two teenage boys, who, in the 1950s and 1960s, suffered abuses at their reform school in Florida and more than fifty years later attempted to confront those responsible.
Eleven-year-old Milton Fauster puts aside his own escape plans to help his sister, Marlo, who is in training to be an underworld secretary, and his best friend, Virgil, who is stuck in the circle of Heck reserved for overweight children.
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.
After her parents' deaths during the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Corrine is sent to reform school in Culpeper, Virginia, where she discovers a sinister plot involving a race of faeries and the disappearance of some of the students.
Cristina Rathbone recounts the experiences she had while observing life for inmates in MCI-Framingham, the oldest operating women's prison in the United States.
