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.
USERS/INTENDED AUDIENCE NOTE
Text of Note
Ages 8-12.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Aunts, Juvenile fiction.
Families-- Michigan, Juvenile fiction.
Mental illness, Juvenile fiction.
Physicians, Juvenile fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals, Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families, Juvenile fiction.
Sisters, Juvenile fiction.
Aunts, Fiction.
Family life-- Michigan, Fiction.
Historical mystery fiction.
Mental illness, Fiction.
Nineteen hundreds, Fiction.
Physicians, Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals, Fiction.
Single-parent families, Fiction.
Sisters, Fiction.
Aunts.
Families.
Mental illness.
Physicians.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Single-parent families.
Sisters.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Michigan, History, 20th century, Juvenile fiction.