Book description
Nestled in the foreboding backwoods of Virginia, Madame Eldridge's behavior program promotes only three official rules:
Firstly, what happens here stays here.
Secondly, all eight steps must be completed, no ifs, ands, or buts.
Thirdly, each boy is referred to by his problem, not his name.
There is one unspoken…
Why read it?
1 author picked Madame Eldridge's Wayward Home for Unruly Boys as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Sometimes a book has you at hello. I like to think I'm immune to marketing, but here was a case something honed in on so many of my favorite things I had to give it a shot.
1. Time Travel
2. "ifs ands or buts" (weird, but I've always dug the phrase)
3. Seven Dwarf style character names (each "unruly" boy is described by his foible – Stealer, Secret, Sassy, Bully, Cheater, etc)
4. The Chapter Titles in the preview / table of contents, all starting with "When the Boys Were..."
There's a neat take on time travel to a…
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