Twin sisters Cassie and Becca Greenfield could not be more different: Cassie is a perfect student and careful to keep everything working as expected. By contrast, Becca is constantly in trouble, barely gets by in school and regularly flouts the rules. When Becca suddenly disappears Careful Cassie goes searching all across their cell for her wayward sister.
Becca wakes in a strange place dressed in a hideous yellow jumpsuit and locked in a cement cell with four other teens. She is dragged from the room to take a series of tests and to endure a knock-out fight with one of the other kids. After the fight, Becca is thrown into a cell with the boy who brutally beat her, where he tries to befriend her. This place is a death row and, Becca learns, full of such contradictions.
In their cell, Cassie breaks the rules and meets new people who aren't like Careful Cassie. The prefect's son Nate seems to be leading the outsiders and Cassie enlists his help. When they head out past the edges of the cell, Cassie is taken by the same people who took Becca.
Within a couple days Nate followed trying to find his friend and discovers the two girls, and several other missing teens, have been taken to some sort of compound. Outside the cell, Nate meets a young boy from the cell next door who helps him infiltrate the crazy house.
Cassie and Becca meet in their prison, the two battle and appear to take leadership over different parts of the prison. The administrators worry the girls will either fail or break this experiment. When Nate and the politics of their cell arrive in the prison Cassie changes the timeline of the girls' plan: Nate was injured and she cannot bear to have him die in this mess.
The Greenfield twins present an interesting challenge for the administrators of the crazy house and their experiment. When the mystery of why everyone has been gathered is revealed to Cassie and Becca they must confront the misrepresentation of their life.
With violence and mature content, Crazy House is better suited to older teen readers. Those who enjoy their mystery with a bit of adventure and a dash of romance will find a fascinating new world in this tale.
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