Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
9781338053845 (hardcover)
2016037795
Reformatories Juvenile delinquency Guilt in children Interpersonal relations in children Bullying Survival Reformatories Juvenile delinquency Guilt Interpersonal relations Bullying Survival