Historical fiction
Horror
Young adult
2023
Reformatory by Tananarive Due
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.
What it is
Within the walls of a school · properly scary
What happens in it
School setting
Closed setting
How it feels
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you like a story shut inside one place
- you want to be properly scared
- you don't mind a good cry
Maybe not if…
- you're after something comforting
- you'd rather skip the hard scenes
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