Wilderness children
By: F.L. Wright
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9781438922256; 9781438922263
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency; Fiction; Gangs; Reformatories; African American gangs
Description: Jewel, AKA, Tadpole is nine when he follows The Cobras in their escape from a burning reform school in rural Arkansas. The boys commit horrible crimes, but most of them manage to avoid capture and become model citizens. It is more than twenty-five years before the code of silence is broken and their secret is told.