Stop Pretending
Sonya Sones

Orion Children's Books 2001

149p pbk $14.95

ISBN: 1-84255-083-7

One day, everything is fine. The next day, your world is turned upside down. The truth isn’t always easy to come to terms with, especially when it concerns your big sister. How could she go crazy? Why did she go crazy?

Life for a 13 year old is turned upside down when one Christmas Eve, her big sister goes crazy, leaving her with unanswered questions, and the task of coming to terms with what has happened. 

Every now and then a book comes along with the power to move and touch you, and Stop Pretending is one of those special books. Once you start reading the first poems, you will be reeled onto a rollercoaster ride that you will never forget… 

Natasa, aged 16, Canberra, ACT