The Reformatory - Tananarive Due

A gloriously creepy Deep South horror story based on the infamous Dozier School for boys, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and Nothing But Blackened Teeth. Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys.

But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts - only they have their own motivations... n n You're in for a treat.

The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tanarive Due hit it out of the park.

• Stephen King n n A vividly realized page-turner, which is at once an ingenious ghost story, a white-knuckle adventure, and an illuminating if infuriating look back at a shameful period in American jurisprudence.
• Kirkus Reviews n n With fully realized characters and well-placed twists, Due ratchets up the tension until the final, extraodrinary showdown.
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