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Summary: If I had a paper shredder
Review: Never again will I buy a book by Sonya Sones and expect to find quality. I paid $ for this at a school book fair and started reading it, expecting to find a good book. Instead I found jumbled poems that are one page long, writing either barely keeping the same topic or repeating the exact same story over three or four poems, and bad characters. What was this book anyway?
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Summary: Stop Pretending
Review: Stop Pretending is a neat book. This book is about two sisters. The older sister suffers a mental breakdown. When this happens, the younger sister goes through many emotions and how she finds her happiness. She loses friends and even makes new ones as she deals with the new sister she has to meet. I would say this book is for teens and anyone who can relate to this story.
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Summary: Poetical, beautiful, heart wrenching and unique
Review: In Stop Pretending, the unconventional topic of mental illness is addressed in a unique way from a new voice: narrator Cookie uses poetry to express her confusion, grief, rage, fear, and hope when the older sister she idolizes checks into a mental hospital. This trauma overshadows and flavors the traditional struggles of being a teen: peer acceptance, family squabbles, first love.
Sones's simple poems reveal raw emotion with immediate honesty and eloquence. Teens will empathize with Cookie and her family's experience. A brief author's note describes her personal experiences the book grew out of. Organizations that provide and support are listed. A must have.
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Summary: Just okay.
Review: This book is actually not that bad. There were some flaws, though. First of all, this book is way too short. I finished it in about an hour. I also thought that the problems in the book were solved just a little too easily. Some of the poems are really good, but overall, I would really only recommend this to someone who needed to write a book report ASAP.
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Summary: A Wonderful Young Adult Book
Review: Imagine what it would be like if you lost your best friend and your only sister. This is exactly what happened to Cookie when her sister started suffering from mental illness.
In the book "Stop Pretending," by Sonya Sones, the author describes through poetry, what it is like to have someone so close to her suffer from mental illness. This book discusses Cookie's troubles dealing with her sister's sickness, and coping with people around her, and how they react when they find out about her sister. I really enjoy how the book was written in poetry, it gave a sense of the disconection from the world, felt by Cookie, and it made the reader feel like they were in Cookie's shoes, and it was their sister that "went crazy."
I would recomend this book to everyone, because it is an easy read that touches the reader with confusion and emotion that they are sure to feel in everyday life.
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Summary: Touching Story
Review: I found this book to be incredibly touching. The story is told from the voice of a thirteen year old girl. She writes about the feelings she goes through when her older sister is diagnosed with a mental illness which has to be treated at an institution.The book is wrorte in a beautiful poem form. The poems are not only concering they tell the story of the thirteen year old girls experience with her sisters illness. I highly recommend this book, its a wonderful story in a unique format.
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Summary: Best Ever
Review: This book is amazingly powerful. I cried the first time I read it, which is extremely rare for me. I got this book off of a book order from school and loved it. It only took me about a total of an hour and a half to read, but yet i changed me. I often don't like to read for no reason except to read, but as soon as i started reading this book, i couldn't stop. I even read it again, which i hate doing because then it gets boring, but I want to read it again. *Thinks to herself, "This will be my fifth time now...?*
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Summary: TERRIFIC!
Review: Absolultly terrific. It was the best composition of poetry I've ever read. Its just not poems. It tells a very moving story. I love the poem format for it. It makes the story more effective. Everyone read this. Its great!
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Summary: This book touches one's heart, soul, and spirt.
Review: This book was incredibly moving. The poems were magnificent; I removed this book from the sight of my eyes one moment of time. One finds themselves consuming information and understanding new ideas about people.
This novel consists of poems about a young girl of thirteen who has a sister with maniac deppressive disorder. The poems tell about how she feels. When I read them, I thought I was reading my mind. I was so moved I felt like crying, which is rare. Please read this book, I know you will soon be online spilling your heart out to young readers eyerwhere.
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Summary: Stop Pretending: What Happened When my Big Sister Went Crazy
Review: a library assistant at my school asked me to read this because she said i seem the type to understand this book. when i read the title i had no clue what she ment but when i read for like 6 min. i was hooked and didnt put it down till i was done...really no lies there. read the book to find out what i mean. trust me im not the reading type i like action outside but this book took me away from being with the dudes surfing and sk8ting at sk8ter island. it was a real good feeling
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