Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

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Paperback
Author: Sonya Sones
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publish Date: July 2016
Language: English
Reading Level: 4.8
EAN: 9780064462181

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Overview

Continuously in print for nearly two decades, this groundbreaking and profoundly moving story told in verse, from award-winning author Sonya Sones, has been repackaged with a striking new cover and bonus content.

When her beloved older sister is hospitalized after a sudden mental breakdown, Cookie is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief, friends who shun her, and her fear that she, too, might one day lose her mind.

Based on award-winning author Sonya Sones’s own true story, this novel explores the chilling landscape of mental illness, revealing glimmers of beauty and of hope along the way. Told in a succession of short and powerful poems, it takes us deep into the cyclone of the narrator’s emotions: despair, anger, guilt, resentment, and ultimately, acceptance.

Details

Pages: 176
Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 in
Interest Level: Upper Grade (UG)
Point Value: 1
ISBN: 0064462188

Awards

2001 Rhode Island Teen Book Award - Nominee (Ages 12 & Up)