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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Graylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This star-studded drama follows the story of Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, The Grand Budapest Hotel), a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Dr. Nathan Gross (Derek Jacobi, The King's Speech, Gladiator). Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer--cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician--loved by audiences and Nazis...
Author
Series
Mara Dyer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer's story"--
9) Insanity
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The intertwining stories of four teenagers who find themselves haunted beyond imagining in the depths of a Kentucky mental institution.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist...
Author
Series
Diviners volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten--ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe...
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness?
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her best friend, Agnes, goes into a coma as a result of a game of Truth or Dare, rising senior Hannah's secrets begin to escape while she is locked in a psychiatric hospital.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Czechoslovakia, 1935. Viktor Kosárek, a young psychiatrist, takes his new post at Hrad Orlů Asylum. The mountain-top asylum for the criminally insane houses only six inmates-- the country's most depraved murderers. Meanwhile, in Prague, police investigator Lukáš Smolák struggles to understand a brutal serial killer known as "Leather Apron" who has spread fear through the city... and who may have ties to the asylum. -- adapted from jacket
15) Poppet
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking...
16) The patient
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...
Author
Series
Penelope Tredwell mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.
20) Stone mothers
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Erin Kelly, master of suspense, returns with her next thrilling standalone featuring an abandoned mental asylum and the secrets it holds. Marianne was never supposed to return to town, the town where she grew up in the shadow of the Nazareth Mental Hospital. Her mother may be suffering from dementia nearby, but she had thought she'd left that place, and its dark secrets, behind her. That is, until her husband buys a flat in its newly renovated interior...
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