Okay, if creepy, crawly bugs give you bad dreams, don't even THINK about reading
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand! Victoria is 12 years old; she's a perfectionist and likes everything to be exactly right and just so. She doesn't have any friends except Lawrence, who's really more of her "project," as she constantly tries to correct him into being a better person. They live in Belleville, which is a little too eerie in both it's perfect-ness and the way it doesn't seem to notice the local orphanage. Then Lawrence disappears, Victoria's parents start getting weird, and these BUGS keep crawling out of everywhere (even with occasional bug illustrations right in the middle of the page you're reading), so Victoria checks out the orphanage. She finds Lawrence - which is good - and a nasty gardener, a shape-shifting house, and the reason scary Mrs. Cavendish is keeping the kids there - which isn't good. And did I mention bugs? Yuk. If you're brave enough, get out your bug spray and find out if Victoria can learn what friendship is truly all about.
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