The Nickel Boys :A Novel
By: Whitehead, Colson
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TextPublisher: Anchor Books 2020ISBN: 9780345804341Subject(s): Abuse of Administrative Power - Fiction | African American Boys - Abuse of - Fiction | African American Teenagers - Fiction | African Americans - Civil Rights - Fiction | Florida - Fiction | Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Florida) - Fiction | Historical Fiction | Racism - Fiction | Reformatories - FictionSummary: Set in the early 1960's, the reformatory in question is called the Nickel Academy, named after a former leader of the school, although some students say it's really 'because their lives weren't worth five cents'.This is the story of Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in Tallahassee who is unfairly sentenced to Nickel Academy and finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children.
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Set in the early 1960's, the reformatory in question is called the Nickel Academy, named after a former leader of the school, although some students say it's really 'because their lives weren't worth five cents'.This is the story of Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in Tallahassee who is unfairly sentenced to Nickel Academy and finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children.
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