Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
Author Sonya Sones
Country United States
Language English
Genre Young adult fiction
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
1999
Media type Print Hardcover
Pages 160pp
ISBN 978-0-06-028387-2

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy (1999) is a novel in verse by Sonya Sones.[1] The free-verse novel follows Cookie, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose older sister is hospitalized on Christmas Eve when she has an intense breakdown that is eventually diagnosed as manic depression. The novel is loosely based on Sones’ own journals from her childhood, when her own sister went through the same treatment.

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