RED RIDING HOOD, EVIL?

Ferryport Landing Asylum Patient List 1955

The Mad hatter – diagnosis: schizophrenia

Chicken Little – diagnosis: panic attacks

Hansel- diagnosis: eating disorder (outpatient)

The White Rabbit – diagnosis: OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder; outpatient)

The Old Woman Who lived in a Shoe – diagnosis: exhaustion (outpatient)

Ichabod Crane – diagnosis : night terrors (outpatient)

Little Red Riding Hood – diagnosis: Psychosis with delusions and hallucinations, homicidal tendencies.

Sabrina’s heart rose upinto her throat when she saw the last name on the list. The little girl in the red cloak who had taken her parents was Little Red riding Hood! Now that it was right in front of her, she felt stupid. How could I not figure that out? But how could she. She’d read the story many times. Little Red riding Hood was one of the good guys. She wasn’t evil. She was a victim. Why would she kidnap Henry and Veronica Grimm?

An excerpt from Sisters Grimm: The Problem Child by Michael Buckley

For readers who in 4th – 6th who enjoy an unusual mystery headed by a spunky heroine who’s determined to solve things her way.