Sin Bin Island

Sin Bin Island by Jaclyn Moriarty is a fast-paced middle grade adventure that turns detention into a high-stakes mystery. When Jack Digby is shipped off to Cyril Sniggs’s Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls, he expects grim rules and boring punishments—not cannon practice, pirate alarms, and whispers that the school was founded by a pirate.

Each year, the four worst-behaved kids are dumped on Sin Bin Island for a week and told to survive. The place is steeped in legend: long ago it was used for smuggling magic, but the magic supposedly vanished centuries ago. Jack soon discovers the stories aren’t just for scaring troublemakers, and the island has a way of bringing secrets to the surface.

Perfect for readers who love funny fantasy, school stories with a twist, mysterious islands, and spirited underdogs.

Step aboard and see what Sin Bin Island is really hiding.