HELP ME FIND THIS BOOK!
I am absolutely going INSANE from trying to find this book. I don’t remember the title, the names of any characters, the main plot, and i barely remember the cover. It might even be two books that my memory smashed into one. Here’s what I remember:
The main character is a girl with purple hair. She steals stuff, I think. Her parents somehow leave the picture (maybe) and she’s sent to live with some rich family member in an old, fancy building that used to be an insane asylum. She isn’t allowed in certain areas of the place by whomever because of some stuff I don’t remember. She (maybe?) sees an image of, or maybe hears a story about, a child with a yellow blanket, then finds out the yellow blanket was something they used to send dead patients down chutes in when the building was still an asylum. There’s some boy, maybe mentions of an ocean or lake nearby, and I think the girl might be a kleptomaniac. She finds comfort in hiding in tight places like vents and small secret spots, where I think she at one point hides from cops who come to take her from her old house to the asylum place. The cover has some kind of nature detailing, like maybe leaves, or vines, or a flower, and the girl with purple hair is shown with shadows on her face. I think I got this book from a scholastic bookfair in like idk 2013 or a bit earlier. I think either I compared it to the secret garden, or a review on the cover did. Some of this might be completely false but that’s what I remember. Please someone help me lmao
