Title: Blackwell's Island
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.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters, Fiction, History, Horror stories, Juvenile fiction, Missing persons, Supernatural, Supernatural, fiction, Children's fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction
Places: New York (N.Y.), Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.)
Time periods: 1898-1951