The Island of Worthy Boys: A Novel

* In a current day economy that hasn’t rebounded for everyone, readers will be intrigued by reading about the poverty in an era where there were no social safety nets.

* Informs readers of a little-known institution that was a unique, positive environment for orphaned and indigent boys at a time when the alternatives (the State Reform School in Westboro, the House of Reformation on Rainsford Island, etc.) were corrupt and abusive.

* The Boston Farm School, the setting for this novel, served the population of Boston’s at-risk youth, and although the school no longer exists, the island still serves as the location of the Outward Bound Educational Center; Outward Bound is open to the idea of a joint publicity event.