Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
After her parents' deaths during the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Corrine is sent to reform school in Culpeper, Virginia, where she discovers a sinister plot involving a race of faeries and the disappearance of some of the students.
Cristina Rathbone recounts the experiences she had while observing life for inmates in MCI-Framingham, the oldest operating women's prison in the United States.
In the prison-like school that is his last chance, thirteen-year-old Robbie tries to recover from events that brought him there, including his uncle's war injuries and the death of a classmate who may have been his friend.
Fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell, sentenced after his recapture to live at a boys' home called Hellenweiler, tries to stay away from gangs and violence so he can get out in a few months, but his inmates do their best to involve him in trouble.
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
When Cody Mack and the boys uncover an old, forgotten swimming pool hidden below the floor of Splurch Academy's gymnasium they think it may provide them with an escape route, but the pool is overflowing with evil, monstrous squids.
Escaping the Splurch Academy infirmary using stolen keys, Cody Mack and friends prepare for Halloween and try to figure out Cody's dreams about a giant beetle that seems to be turning him into a monster.
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 goth teen Marlo wakes up in Fibble, the part of Heck that is reserved for liars, she is disgusted to find that she is in her younger brother Milton's body.
