Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy (1999
) is a novel in verse by Sonya Sones
. 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.
1999 in literature
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) is a novel in verse by Sonya Sones
Sonya Sones
Sonya Sones is an American poet and author. She has written four young adult novels in verse, as well as a novel in verse for adults and a picture book.-Biography:...
. The free verse novel follows Cookie, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose older sister is hospitalized on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...
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.