Výchovný ústav – Due Tananarive (2025)

The book is inspired by true events. An absolutely gripping novel about the American South in the 1950s with elements of horror and the supernatural. A probe into family relationships, issues of racial segregation, and more. Gracetown, Florida, June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months in the Gracetown School reform school for kicking the son of the town's largest landowner in defense of his older sister, Gloria. Thus begins Robbie's journey through the horrors of the South and the feared school known as the reform school. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window into the truth of what is happening in the reform school. The boys who are forced to work on correcting their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the apparitions Robbie sees suggest worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie learns not only the rules but also how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria mobilizes all family members and acquaintances in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it's too late.