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The Island of Worthy Boys

In Boston at the turn of the century, two indigent adolescent boys, Aidan and Charles, are brought together by a common desire: earning enough money each day to feed themselves (and, in Aidan’s case, his mother and sister). Together, they achieve this goal by robbing drunken sailors in the brothel district of the city — until one night they accidently kill their victim. To avoid arrest, they leave the city, conning their way into an island school that only accepts boys with squeaky-clean pasts. But the pressure of keeping their stories straight soon fractures their friendship — and when the cracks begin to show, they find out that they are not as safe from the law as they had hoped.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 340
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781631520013
  • Genres
  • fiction
  • Release date
  • 2015