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Author:

Whelan, Gloria.

Title:

The locked garden / Gloria Whelan.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

168 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Psychiatric hospitals--Juvenile fiction.
Physicians--Juvenile fiction.
Mental illness--Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families--Juvenile fiction.
Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Aunts--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Michigan--Juvenile fiction.
Michigan--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0060790962 (lib. bdg.)
9780060790967 (lib. bdg.)
0060790946 (trade bdg.)
9780060790943 (trade bdg.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)237014525

LCCN:

2008024637

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

MGPD463 -- Humboldt Public Library (Humboldt)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)