Scar Island
By: Dan Gemeinhart
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781338053845
Subjects: Guilt in children; Juvenile fiction; Juvenile delinquency; Fiction; Bullying; Interpersonal relations; Guilt; Reformatories; Interpersonal relations in children; Survival
Description: 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.