Reading Level: 4.5
Lexile: 610L
Genre: Realistic Fiction/Adventure
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.
I highly recommend this book for 3rd through 8th grade students. The story was compelling. I became invested in the characters and cared about what would happen to them.
