Blackwell's Island
By: Serena Graff.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Supernatural -- Fiction.; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.; Missing persons -- Fiction.; Horror stories.; Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.; Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1914, eleven-year-old Alex and his nine-year-old sister, Anna, are taken from New York City's Lower East Side to Blackwell's Island, where there are lunatics, prisoners, evil caretakers, ghouls, and, perhaps, their missing mother.