Chris Ciko Chris Ciko

“Midnight on Fireworks Island” is Shawshank Redemption, Do The Right Thing and It's a Wonderful Life for today’s Middle Grade and Teenage readers.

Midnight on Fireworks Island is a hilarious yet deep and compelling tale. It starts simple and funny but when you turn the last page your life has changed. This book is Shawshank Redemption in that it is a story of an unbreakable friendship that develops in a dangerous prison/correctional academy.

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Hema Chandar Gandham Hema Chandar Gandham

“Midnight on Fireworks Island” is a must read book by teenagers and young adults.

The main characters of the story are two mischievous boys who met each other at Rockweiler Academy for boys. Rockweiler isn’t a facility of punishment, but of learning and correction. Rockweiler believes in making the boys learn rules instead of punishing them. Students are made aware about the cause and effect rule there.

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Chris Ciko Chris Ciko

It is a gripping read that I found difficult to put down.

“Midnight on Fireworks Island” is the first book by the author Christopher Ciko that I have read. Two naughty boys Joey and Figgy met at Rockweiler Academy for boys. Rockweiler isn’t a facility of punishment, but of learning and correction. Its main focus was on training boys so they could follow the rules.

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