A review by bookgirl4ever
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand

3.0

Victoria is straight-laced, responsible, and on track to be perfect, just like her parents. As a kid she took under wing Lawrence who was the opposite to see if she could help him improve. What began as a project turned into an unlikely friendship. Then Lawrence and some other classmates of Victorias disappear and the grownups don't seem to care. Her last resort is to venture onto the grounds of the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, a gated school for orphans at the end of the road. While there she receive a secret note from a resident that says, "Help me!" Convinced that the Cavendish home has something to do with the disappearances and Alice Cavendish is hiding something, Victoria investigates further and finds a creepy, somewhat haunted house that is holding children from many generations past hostage in the attempt to rehabilitate them from degenerates to perfection.

Creepy and dark, I didn't like the way this book ended. Also it took over half the book to get past the set up. Way too long in my opinion.

Middle school.