The Nickel Boys
What is the importance of the Nickel Reformatory School in the novel, The Nickel Boys?
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The Nickel Reformatory School is the novel’s primary setting. Nickel itself is fictional, but it is directly based on a real school called the Dozier School for Boys, which was located in Marianna Florida.
The Nickel Boys