How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story
How do you know if you’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face...
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How do you know if you’re on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing. Based on the author’s experiences, How I Made it to Eighteen is a frank portrait of what it’s like to struggle with self-esteem, body image issues, drug addiction, and anxiety. How I Made It to Eighteen is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781596434547 (1596434546)
Publish date: June 8th 2010
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
This is a somewhat fictionalized (lightly, the author says) account of the author's stay in a mental hospital after having a breakdown. There's plenty going on in her life: depression, an eating disorder, drugs, isolation from family and friends, and a boyfriend who is both controlling and detached ...
Eh. Unremarkable 'issues' book. I only finished it because the art is pretty cute. There was an alleged plot twist that was...um, duh. There were testemonial interludes from friends of the protagonist that came off like those informational pamphlets about "what to do when" and "symptoms of".If y...
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