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After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
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PUBLISHED
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 168 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 850
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780060790943 (trade bdg.)
0060790946 (trade bdg.)
9780060790967 (lib. bdg.)
0060790962 (lib. bdg.)
SUBJECTS
Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Mental illness -- Fiction.
Single-parent families -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Aunts -- Fiction.
Family life -- Michigan -- Fiction.
Historical mystery fiction.
Michigan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.