What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

A teenage boy lives with his mother and youngster sister. The government is trying to control all children by forcing them to take drugs, so they all think and behave the same way. The mom is involved with the school where the children will get drugged, but she only manages to keep her son from getting the drugs – not the youngster sister.

Younger sister goes freaky, they escape to Canada, I believe – and the teenage boy did some kind of artwork in a tent that (I think) honored his father, who may have been taken away by the government. It turns out he’s pretty well known in Canada, because his artwork story has been circulated.

They are working on deprogramming the younger sister when the book ends, trying to get her back to some sort of normalcy. And I want to say the book was from the 1990s or early 2000s, and a female author (but any and all of that might be wrong). I got a library copy in 2018 at a library book sale (book was taken out of circulation).

NOT: “The Pill” or “Among the Hidden.”

Got the answer elsewhere: All Good Children by Catherine Austen.

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All Good Children for the link.

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