Publication Date: November 2016
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 610L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level X
Interest Level: Grades 3-7; Age Level: 8 - 12
Major Awards: 2018 Capitol Choices, Ages Ten to Fourteen * New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2017
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Approximate Word Count: 78,080 words -- The average reader will spend 5 hours and 12 minutes reading Scar Island at 250 words per minute.*
Audible Book Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
Book Themes: Orphans, Bullying, Survival, Juvenile Delinquency, Guilt, Good vs Evil
Genre: Action and Adventure
Setting: Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys — a remote island facility consisting of an ancient, crumbling fortress of gray stone rising up from the ocean
Important Quote:
And you cannot leave a library. Without a book.
Jonathan crouched on his hands and knees, panting in the blackness. He'd never seen such darkness before, total and suffocating. Down in the deepest dungeon, pinned beneath a prison of dark stone, there was hardly even the memory of light. His eyes gasped like the mouth of a fish yanked out of the water They found no light to breathe.
First Line: It's no fun shivering when you're wearing handcuffs.
Point of View: Third Person through Jonathan's Perspective
*Estimate from Reading Length
