Next Day in Book Challenge...
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shadowkatBecause I have no idea which day it is...I think it is Day 28 in the very long Book Challenge - whose link keeps disappearing on me.
The prompt is ...Name a book with antonyms in the title
Just in case you're think WTF? Antonyms are a word and its opposite.
After some looking I found a book I'd read with antonym's in the title.
Lisa: Bright and Dark by John Neufield
I read this book in the fourth grade - we were living in Pennsylvania at the time, and I checked out at the book mobile that came by - or rather that one of my best friends took me too - the one into books, not the one into horror movies. I had two best friends, Marcy and Debbie. I was closest to Marcy, who loved books and to tell stories. Anyhow, Marcy introduced me to the book mobile - and I checked out Lisa: Bright & Dark - a book I adored and haunted me years later.
I still have vague memories of this book - specifically a scene where the protagonist falls through a plate glass window. It's a novel about mental illness, specifically bi-polar, and delves into the fraught relationships between friends and family - how mental illness affects those relationships. Unlike similar novels - in this one, Lisa's friends work together to get her the help she needs.
Lisa Shilling is 16, smart, attractive—and she is losing her mind. Some days are light, and everything is normal; during her dark days, she hides deep within herself, and nothing can reach her. Her teachers ignore what is happening. Her parents deny it. Lisa's friends are the only ones who are listening—and they walk with her where adults fear to tread. This classic novel of a teenager's descent into madness, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, has remained a best seller for close to thirty years
The prompt is ...Name a book with antonyms in the title
Just in case you're think WTF? Antonyms are a word and its opposite.
After some looking I found a book I'd read with antonym's in the title.
Lisa: Bright and Dark by John Neufield
I read this book in the fourth grade - we were living in Pennsylvania at the time, and I checked out at the book mobile that came by - or rather that one of my best friends took me too - the one into books, not the one into horror movies. I had two best friends, Marcy and Debbie. I was closest to Marcy, who loved books and to tell stories. Anyhow, Marcy introduced me to the book mobile - and I checked out Lisa: Bright & Dark - a book I adored and haunted me years later.
I still have vague memories of this book - specifically a scene where the protagonist falls through a plate glass window. It's a novel about mental illness, specifically bi-polar, and delves into the fraught relationships between friends and family - how mental illness affects those relationships. Unlike similar novels - in this one, Lisa's friends work together to get her the help she needs.
Lisa Shilling is 16, smart, attractive—and she is losing her mind. Some days are light, and everything is normal; during her dark days, she hides deep within herself, and nothing can reach her. Her teachers ignore what is happening. Her parents deny it. Lisa's friends are the only ones who are listening—and they walk with her where adults fear to tread. This classic novel of a teenager's descent into madness, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, has remained a best seller for close to thirty years