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Asylum By Madeleine Roux
The last book I read was called „Asylum” written by Madeleine Roux. It is a story about a sixteen year old Dan Crawford who was accepted in the New Hampshire College Prep program. While attending the classes he, just like all students, stayed in the Brookline Dorm - formerly a psychiatric hospital. Our main character with his new friends start exploring the dark past of the asylum. And that's when the strange things start happening. Daniel Crawford, our main character, was an orphan. He had been going from one family to another his whole life. The only thing that wasn't changing at all was his last name. He wanted to have at least one thing that would belong to himself. He was very intelligent, but not very confident. We also can say that he was very curious and that particular thing in him got him into many dangerous situations. The boy also had mild …show more content…
He didn't remember putting them there. They were another documents written by the warden. This time there were a signature at the bottom. It said „Daniel Crawford”. Dan couldn't believe that he could be related to the warden. Our main character wanted to make sure that he also hadn't missed something important in the other files. He opened the folder and found a note in now dreadful familiar handwriting. Dan had enough of it. The other day when Dan was going back to his room, he found Yi. The boy was lying on the floor and wasn't moving at all. Dan immediately informed the police officers about it. Fortunately Crawford's friend was still alive. What scared our main character even more was that the boy also looked like someone put him in this position, just like Joe. During another questioning Dan told the caps about what he had found about the asylum and the Sculptor. They of course didn't take him seriously and told him that he should have stopped chasing ghosts. Also they told Dan that Sculptor

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