Wilderness children

By F. L. Wright

Subjects: Reformatories, African American gangs, Gangs, Fiction, Juvenile delinquency

Description: Jewel, AKA, Tadpole is nine when he follows The Cobras in their escape from a burning reform school in rural Arkansas. The boys commit horrible crimes, but most of them manage to avoid capture and become model citizens. It is more than twenty-five years before the code of silence is broken and their secret is told.