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Country United States Publisher HarperCollins Media type Print Hardcover Originally published 1999 Genre Young adult fiction | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1999 Pages 160pp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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