reformatories

Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who just might have superpowers and who attracts the attention both of the cellblock bullies and sinister Mr. Quincrux.

"Siblings Charlotte and Tobias are trapped within a creepy reform school--and entangled in its dark secrets"--Provided by publisher.

"Milton and Marlo Fauster are sent to the circle of Heck for kids who sass back, where the new vice principal, Lewis Carroll, has them debate in a War of the Words broadcast throughout the underworld, with a reward of heaven for the winner and the ultimate punishment, the real h-e-double-hockeysticks, for the loser"--Provided by publisher.

When Headmaster Farley's estranged sister takes over Splurch Academy, Cody and the other boys are pitted against their new classmates, the girls of Priscilla Prim Academy for Precious and Proper Young Ladies.

When Cody Mack is called to the principal's office yet again, he finds something far worse than detention awaiting him: Splurch Academy, a frightfully sinister boarding school for disobedient children run by a group of monstrous teachers.

Traces the emotionally complex journey of a teenage girl haunted by the strange disappearance of her sister and the secretive power that fuels a hometown where virtually nobody ever gets sick or dies.

Follows the author's incarceration for drug trafficking, during which she gained a unique perspective on the criminal justice system and met a varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances.

When timid Milton and his older, scofflaw sister Marlo die in a marshmallow bear explosion at Grizzly Mall, they are sent to Heck, an otherworldly reform school from which they are determined to escape.

When a district attorney who is eager to make an example of a teenaged offender misinterprets an essay written by fifteen-year-old Annie Ireland, Annie, her best friend Roach Boy, and Primo, a magical being who is trapped in a doll's body, are sent first to jail then to a cross between a school and boot camp.

Phoebe, Robin, and Teal, three girls from very different backgrounds, bond during their internment in a heavily guarded "school" run by a sadistic woman intent on making them betray each other.