Rowan knows he is strange. But dangerous? He didn't mean to scare his sister. In his right mind, he wouldn't hurt a fly. But there's a place he can go where they say they can fix his mind...This haunting novel about mental illness and family relationships, set at the start of the Second World War, was shortlisted for the 2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal.
This is Book 18 in the Rollercoasters Series. See all Rollercoasters books here.
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Other titles: Follow Me Down, The Merrybegot, Ivy, Hazel
Follow Me Down was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
The Merrybegot was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
Julie Hearn has been writing all her life. After training as a journalist, she went to Australia, where she work