Title: Wilderness children
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.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency, Fiction, Gangs, Reformatories, African American gangs
Places: Arkansas