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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. YA fiction about a group of kids who fix up a room of an abandoned house for a depressed brother of one of the group. Spoiler below. [s]

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Nachelle | 160 comments I read this in the mid-90's. It had a blue cover. It was relatively short. I feel like the title was something like "The Night Room" but my Googling was fruitless. One girl in the group had a brother who was in the hospital for a suicide attempt. The rest of the group decided to fix up a room in an abandoned house nearby, painting it with stars and planets, adding furniture, for him to visit when he came home. I think they rode their bikes to a nearby national park and took plants from there for the room as well.

**Spoiler**

He comes home, they take him to the house, he seems to like it. In the book, he doesn't talk at all. Later that night he tries to harm himself and has to return to the hospital. The other kids don't understand why they aren't enough for him. The book ends on that note.

**End Spoiler**


Nachelle | 160 comments You are a book-finding genius! That's the one! Thank you!


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Rainbowheart | 28973 comments Haha, thanks, and glad to help out!


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