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The reformatory : a novel / Tananarive Due.

Summary:

In the Jim Crow South, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982188344 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 570 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Saga Press, 2023.
Subject: Florida School for Boys > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
African Americans > Segregation > Florida > Fiction.
Ghosts > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Reformatories > Florida > Fiction.
Genre: Ghost stories.
Horror fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch FIC Due 31681010353910 FICTION Checked out 03/11/2026

Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com.


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