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The Island at the End of Everything
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Ages: 12+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf BFYR/Random House/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-553-53532-7
Keywords: Mothers and Daughters, Orphans, Hansen's disease (Leprosy), Disease
In an attempt to combat leprosy (Hansen's Disease), the Philippine government separated the healthy from the ill. When uninfected 12-year-old Amihan must move to a distant orphanage, her world falls apart.