Love Among the Walnuts

Blurb

Love Among the Walnuts: or, How I Saved My Family from Being Poisoned is a children's book written by Jean Ferris. It was published in 1998 by Harcourt, and received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal.
This book is about a family living in the country with no neighbors except the crazy people at Walnut Manor. Their son named Sandy realized his parents are put suddenly into a coma along with his pet chicken and Flossie by his uncles with a poisoned cake. His uncles, Bart and Bernie, are trying to kill his parents and steal Horatio's fortune, because they were greedy men, who were jealous of their brother's success, and of Sandy, his father's heir. After caring for his parents in his own home at Eclpse, Sandy was told by Bart and Bernie that his parents and Flossie were to be put in a place where a doctor could watch over them. So, he decides to send them to the Walnut Manor. He meets a young nurse named Sunnie Stone, whom he has hired to help him care for his parents. Before he knows it he has fallen in love with her. Sandy also soon realizes that the inmates at Walnut Manor aren't as crazy as they are made out to be.