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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"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...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Wartime heroics of a British woman who captures a Nazi pilot, cares for her children, and endures the loss of her home and family; ex-G.I. painter Jerry Mulligan resides in post-war Paris and falls in love with a young dancer who is engaged to another man; a rebellious patient battles the mental institution he has been sent to; story of a friendship between a headstrong refined Southern woman and her patient chauffeur; a rookie cop infiltrates the...