Queen of Hearts

Written by Martha Brooks

Three siblings sick with tuberculosis begin a war of their own inside a sanatorium.

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214 pages· HL710L· AR 4.4 · 6 AR pts

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In December 1941, just before her sixteenth birthday, Marie-Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent from their Manitoba farm to a tuberculosis sanatorium. Headstrong and angry, Marie-Claire must chase the cure, find privacy where there is none and watch others slowly decline. A loss in her own family sets her back, but it also leads her to the person who helps her recover.

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On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride. In a new strange land of TB exiles she must “chase the cure,” seek privacy where there is none, and witness the slow wasting decline of others. But in this moving novel about fighting a way back to normal life, it is the thing that sets back Marie Claire the most–the demise of her little brother–that also connects her with the person who will be instrumental in helping her recover.

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