Title: To be Mona
Description: High school senior Sage tries to hide her mentally ill mother and get a popular football player to go out with her, but eventually she realizes that abandoning her real friends and letting herself be manipulated by others does not make her feel better after all. Includes author's note about bipolar disorder and abusive relationships.
Subjects: Self-confidence, Juvenile fiction, Mothers and daughters, Single-parent families, Single parent families, Fiction, Mental illness, Dating (Social customs), High schools, Schools, Manic-depressive illness, Identity, Children's fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Mental illness, fiction, Self-confidence, fiction, Identity, fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Family, fiction, Schools, fiction