The Children at St. Bartholomew's Hospital

Thirteen-year old Robin is in the hospital after another beating from her mother. Yet shes happier than shes ever been because shes making friends with Declan and the other children on the ward, and because the kindly nurses are giving her the love shes always craved from her mother. Robin helps Declan too, when they sneak out of the hospital on a mysterious errand, and they meet Lee, another abused girl. Then one morning, Robin is stunned to find herself painfully alone againall her friends, and even the nurses, have disappeared and strangers are in their place. Now desolate and grieving, its up to Robin, to discover what has happened to all her friends. Robins Auntie Val (who Robins mother has kept out of Robins life) helps her and together they solve the mystery.