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The Reformatory
A boy who sees ghosts is sent to a school where the dead may be the only witnesses.
Genre and trope pairingsHorrorCaptiveHorrorGhostsLiteraryFamily secretsLiteraryGrief journeyLiterarySocial commentaryParanormalGhostsParanormalPsychic abilities
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About The Reformatory
In Jim Crow Florida in 1950, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to a segregated reform school after defending his sister. Robbie can see haints, and at the Gracetown School for Boys those ghosts reveal the truth behind missing children while his sister Gloria fights to bring him home.
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- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- child-death
- child-abuse
- sexual-violence
- child-sexual-abuse-off-page
- violence
- death
- hate-crimes
- racism
- racial-slurs
- forced-institutionalization
- police-brutality
