- Family problems, Juvenile fiction, Mental illness, Poetry
A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.
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Spare, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Sonya Sones
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Scholastic
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060283872
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First sentence
“I can remember what things were like before she got sick: my whole family climbed into the big hammock on the moondappled beach, wove ourselves together, and swayed as one.”
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