Escape from asylum / Madeleine Roux.
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TextSeries: Roux, Madeleine, Asylum novel ; Edition: First editionDescription: 343 pages : photographs ; 22 cmISBN: 9780062424426; 0062424424Subject(s): Mental illness -- Treatment -- Juvenile fiction | Psychiatric hospital patients -- Juvenile fiction | Gays -- Mental health -- Juvenile fiction | Mental illness -- Fiction | Gays -- FictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. DDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ7.R772 | Esc 2016Summary: Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program--a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him--Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now.
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | FIC/ROUX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500040353 |
Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program--a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him--Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now.
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