Abandoned Insane Asylums (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781597165754)

What secrets are buried within the crumbling walls of old asylums for the insane? Readers will get a glimpse of what these nightmare facilities were like before the dawn of the modern era. From the wretched overcrowding of London's Bethlem Royal Hospital (which inspired the English word bedlam), where citizens could pay a penny for the pleasure of poking "lunatics" through the hospital's bars with sticks, to Christian Church Hospital in Kansas City where Dr. Robert Patterson beat and chained patients and performed ice-pick lobotomies--this scary book will rivet young readers while also giving them an understanding of how far mental health care has come. Eleven asylums are explored, with tales of not only what they were like but of the spirits said to still haunt them. Abandoned Insane Asylums is part of Bearport's Scary Places series.

Author: Dinah Williams
ISBN-10: 1597165751
ISBN-13: 9781597165754
Publisher: Bearport Books
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 10.22h x 8.47w x 0.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 120503 / Abandoned Insane Asylums


Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 pg. 385 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw