Gloria Whelan
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After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
6) Yatandou
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Yatandou, a young Mali girl, helps the women of her village pound millet kernels to raise enough money to buy a machine that will do the work for them.