num_pages: 145
description: 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.
language: English
title: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
titlecomplete: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
genres: Mental Health, Teen, Fiction, Psychology, Young Adult, Family, Contemporary, Poetry, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 5011
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Claudia Lewis Award
publisher: HarperTeen