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Light and Air

by Mindy Nichols Wendell

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Paperback · 192 pages Candlewick Press · 2025

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Light and Air

It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it?

When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.

Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place. But it is not, Halle learns, a prison. Free of her worried and difficult father for the first time in her life, she slowly discovers joy, family, and the healing power of honey on the children's ward, where the girls on the floor become her confidantes and sisters. But when Mama suffers a lung hemorrhage, their entire future—and recovery—is thrown into question....

Light and Air deals tenderly and insightfully with isolation, quarantine, found family, and illness. Set in the fully realized world of a 1930s hospital, it offers a tender glimpse into a historical epidemic that has become more relatable than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Halle tries to warm her father’s coldness and learns to trust the girls and women of the hospital, and as she and her mother battle a disease that once paralyzed the country, a profound message of strength, hope, and healing emerges.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

"Richly detailed... Timeless."—Shelf Awareness, starred review

"Emotionally honest... Satisfying."—Publishers Weekly

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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Author
Mindy Nichols Wendell
Format
Paperback
Published
Jul 15, 2025
ISBN-13
9780823460601
ISBN-10
0823460606
Pages
192
Carton quantity
30 copies
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