AR Book Level
5.2
AR Points
5
Word Count
36,009
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
131229 EN
About this book
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her sister move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new treatments of mental illness are being proposed.