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Author McMurchy-Barber, Gina, author

Title Free as a bird / Gina McMurchy-Barber.

Publication Info. Toronto : Dundurn Press, [2010]
copyright 2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN FIC MCCU    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Young Adult Fiction  YA-MCM    Check Shelf
Description 168 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 168).
Summary Ruby Jean Sharp comes from a time when being a developmentally disabled person could mean growing up behind locked doors and barred windows and being called names like "retard" and "moron." Born with Down's syndrome, Ruby Jean is lovingly cared for by her grandmother. But after Grandma dies when Ruby is eight, her mother takes her to Woodlands School in New Westminster, British Columbia, and never comes back. It's here in an institution that opened in 1878 and was originally called the Provincial Lunatic Asylum that Ruby Jean learns to survive isolation, boredom, and every kind of abuse. Just when she can hardly remember if she's ever been happy, she learns a lesson about patience and perseverance from an old crow.
Subject Down syndrome -- Patients -- Care -- Fiction.
Abandoned children -- Fiction.
Psychiatric hospital care -- Fiction.
Woodlands School (New Westminster, B.C.) -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781554884476
1554884470
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