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Scar Island

by Dan Gemeinhart

Cover of Scar Island
Popularity 37

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.

Guilt in childrenJuvenile fictionJuvenile delinquencyFictionBullyingInterpersonal relationsGuiltReformatoriesInterpersonal relations in childrenSurvivalChildren's fictionBullying, fiction