Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780064462181)

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.

Author: Sonya Sones
ISBN-10: 0064462188
ISBN-13: 9780064462181
Publisher: Harperteen
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2016
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 2484 / Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

Award: Rhode Island Teen Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2001 pg. 729
Kliatt 11/01/2006 pg. 23