Scar Island
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Scar Island
AUTHOR:
Gemeinhart, Dan.
ISBN:
9781338053845
EDITION:
First edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2017.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
249 p. ; 22 cm
ABSTRACT:
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.
SUBJECT_TERM:
SUBJECT:
Reformatories -- Juvenile fiction. |
Juvenile delinquency -- Juvenile fiction. |
Guilt in children -- Juvenile fiction. |
Interpersonal relations in children -- Juvenile fiction. |
Bullying -- Juvenile fiction. |
Survival -- Juvenile fiction. |
Reformatories -- Fiction. |
Juvenile delinquency -- Fiction. |
Guilt -- Fiction. |
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. |
Bullying -- Fiction. |
Survival -- Fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.