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Willowbrook State School for the intellectually challenged on Staten Island in New York actually existed and the events in this book are real. These events occured from 1947 to 1987.
Sage and Rosemary Winters are identical twins but Rosemary is intellectually challenged. When Rosemary disappears, Sage is told that she died in the hospital of pneumonia. Six years later she overhears her step father, Alan, discussing her missing sister with a friend. The truth, Sage learns, is that her sister was sent to Willowbrook at the age of ten by by Alan and her mother.
Determined to help find her sister, sixteen-year-old Sage travels to Willowbrook but once there is mistaken for her missing twin and is trapped in the institution. She learns how residents are treated and no one believes her 'story'. She learns, too, that many have gone missing both in her community and from Willowbrook. Could she have been murdered? When she and a Willowbrook employee find her body, she knows that the rumors of a murderer preying upon residents are true and Sage, too, may become a victim.
Sage and Rosemary Winters are identical twins but Rosemary is intellectually challenged. When Rosemary disappears, Sage is told that she died in the hospital of pneumonia. Six years later she overhears her step father, Alan, discussing her missing sister with a friend. The truth, Sage learns, is that her sister was sent to Willowbrook at the age of ten by by Alan and her mother.
Determined to help find her sister, sixteen-year-old Sage travels to Willowbrook but once there is mistaken for her missing twin and is trapped in the institution. She learns how residents are treated and no one believes her 'story'. She learns, too, that many have gone missing both in her community and from Willowbrook. Could she have been murdered? When she and a Willowbrook employee find her body, she knows that the rumors of a murderer preying upon residents are true and Sage, too, may become a victim.
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