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How I Made It to Eighteen
A Mostly True Story
By White, Tracy
- ISBN
- 978-1-59643-454-7
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2010
Gr 9-Up White has created a semiautobiographical account of her battle with a mental disorder, bulimia, and drug addiction. Through a variety of formats, readers follow Stacy Black, 17, through this ordeal. The book is divided into chronological sections. Each one opens with text-only panels recording the responses of four friends to a question about Stacy. The densely packed text in these speech balloons requires some effort to wade through. This is followed by copies of documents such as porti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
In this graphic novel, "Stacy Black" (thinly veiled alter-ego of author Tracy White) checks into a psychiatric hospital after an act of self-mu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
