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The Nickel Boys

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Elwood Curtis, a sixteen-year-old African-American teenager, is a good student, works part-time at a store after school, and is preparing for college, dreaming of becoming a teacher. But due to a freak accident, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to time in a correctional facility.

Nickel Academy turns out to be a living hell, where students are subjected to physical and emotional abuse and exploitation. Those who resist are sent "to the back streets," never to return. Elwood survives this hell through his friendship with Turner, who is his complete opposite. Elwood is naive and believes in the triumph of justice, while Turner is convinced that the world has always been cruel and unjust, and always will be. The friends' desperate attempt to change the Nickel system ends in tragedy.

The novel is based on the story of a real correctional school in Florida, which, over the course of more than a hundred years, crippled the lives of thousands of teenagers.
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