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The Nickel boys : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

By: Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Bond Street Books, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 213 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385693966
  • 9780385693967
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
Summary: The story of two black boys sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a hellish reformatory in Jim Crow-era Tallahassee, Florida and the atrocious conditions they are forced to endure. Based on a real reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years, scarring and damaging the lives of thousands of children.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction Flesherton Branch Shelves FIC White (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 32241001123472
Fiction Kimberley Branch Shelves FIC White (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan 36990002031649

The story of two black boys sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a hellish reformatory in Jim Crow-era Tallahassee, Florida and the atrocious conditions they are forced to endure. Based on a real reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years, scarring and damaging the lives of thousands of children.

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