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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     More Content       More by this author     McMurchy-Barber, Gina.     Subjects     Woodlands School (New Westminster, B.C.).     Families -- Fiction.     Down syndrome -- Fiction.     Abandoned children -- Fiction.     Abused children -- Fiction.     Psychiatric hospital care -- Fiction.     British Columbia -- Fiction     Browse Catalog     by author:      McMurchy-Barber, Gina.       by title:      Free as a bird / Gin...       by call number:      FICTION MCM     Search the Web     McMurchy-Barber, Gina.     Woodlands School (New Westminster, B.C.).     Families -- Fiction.     Down syndrome -- Fiction.     Abandoned children -- Fiction.     Abused children -- Fiction.     Psychiatric hospital care -- Fiction.     British Columbia -- Fiction       MARC Display

Free as a bird / Gina McMurchy-Barber. by McMurchy-Barber, Gina. Dundurn Press, c2010. Call #: FICTION MCM Subjects Woodlands School (New Westminster, B.C.).   Families -- Fiction.   Down syndrome -- Fiction.   Abandoned children -- Fiction.   Abused children -- Fiction.   Psychiatric hospital care -- Fiction.   British Columbia -- Fiction ISBN:  9781554884476 Description:  168 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Notes:  Governor General's Literary Awards finalist --cover. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 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. Genre:  Canadian fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Young Adult Fiction FICTION MCM Ya Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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