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The reformatory : a novel / Tananarive Due.

Summary:

"Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it's too late."-- Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982188344
  • ISBN: 1982188340
  • Physical Description: 570 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Saga Press edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Saga Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 570).
Subject: Florida School for Boys > Fiction.
African Americans > Segregation > Florida > Fiction.
Reformatories > Florida > Fiction.
African American boys > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Haunted schools > Fiction.
Clairvoyants > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Siblings.
Florida > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Horror fiction.
Ghost stories.

Available copies

  • 48 of 71 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries. (Show)

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  • 1 current hold with 71 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield FIC Due (Text) 38955500109450 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/16/2025
Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library F DUE (Text) 39493110097294 Adult Fiction Available -
BHM Headquarters Library FIC (Text) 38344101743894 Adult Fiction Available -
Benhaven Public Library F Due (Text) 33630005245050 Adult Fiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library FIC Due (Text) 37807000055088 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/07/2025
Broadway Branch FIC DUE (Text) 33262003281835 Adult Fiction Available -
C.B. Hildebrand Public Library F DUE (Text) 33557004599700 Adult New Fiction In transit -
Canton Library F Due (Text) 33115007703345 Adult Fiction Available -
Clemmons Branch FIC Due, Tananarive (Text) 0112524098310 Adult Fiction Available -
Cleveland County Main Library F DUE (Text) 22281500156175 Adult Fiction Available -