Scar Island
About this book
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.
Subjects
- bullying
- bullying, fiction
- children's fiction
- fiction
- guilt
- guilt in children
- interpersonal relations
- interpersonal relations, fiction
- interpersonal relations in children
- juvenile delinquency
- juvenile fiction
- reformatories
- survival
- survival, fiction