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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
First edition
AuthorSonya Sones
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult fiction
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
1999
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint Hardcover
Pages160pp
ISBN978-0-06-028387-2

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.[1]

Critical reception

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Stop Pretending was a finalist for the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult.[2] It was positively reviewed by Kirkus Reviews.[3]

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