Lisa, Bright and Dark ANNOTATION
Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
"Compassionate and tragic, an indictment of adults who refuse to get involved."--The New York Times
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature - Jennifer Moore
The friends of Lisa Schilling are becoming increasingly concerned about her mental health. However, the adults they turn to for help are no help at all. Even her own parents won't admit to what is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone at school. Lisa is very sick. In a few short months, she has gone from an intelligent, outgoing girl to a paranoid loner who drifts in and out of her friends' lives. This is the compelling story of a child who cries out for help and is failed by the system and the adults around her. 1999 (orig.
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