Hailed as a "work of art" by the New York Times, this bestselling classic brings a deft touch and understanding spirit to the story of a teenage girl's descent into madness-and the three friends who are determined to walk with her where adults fear to tread. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Crime Fiction Heist Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thriller & SuspenseI read this book as a pre-teen, as I was beginning to deal with severe juvenile depression. The dark feelings and fear described in the book are real and impossibly unbearable, especially for a child. Some may believe that the material is dated (the terminology is less than PC), however, adults are still reluctant to acknowledge that children/teens experience mental illness. The book helped me to realize that I was neither...
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This book tells the story of Lisa and her friends.Lisa is a high school student who has gone from being your average bubbly teenage girl to being suicidal and acting very oddly for the times. This story was placed in the sixties, when mental illness was VERY taboo.Her parents want to ignore her disturbed behavior, because they think she's just being stupid. Her friends, however, are seeing the dangers behind her self-destructive...
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Lisa Bright and Dark is the tear-jerking tale of Lisa Shillings' descent into madness. This was one of those books that stops and makes you think about how awful it must be to be slowly going insane while the only people who carry enough about you to do anything are your friends while your parents lay back and do nothing. It hurts me to think that anyone should not only have to suffer the pain of not being "sane" but also...
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I read this book when i was in high school. I was told to read the book and write a review on it by my school councelor. I was so messed up then and i just wasn't doing too good, not just in school but inside myself i felt wrong and i couldn't explain it. I thought for sure that if i didn't get help somehow, someway that i would die from the pain i felt inside myself. My friends tried to help and they spoke to the coucelor,...
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I would reccommend John Neufeld's book Lisa Bright and Dark to anyone. It's a "keep you on the edge of your seat book". I really enjoyed this book, mainly because it's about people my own age. I also enjoyed it because it also showed how adults ususally don't listen to everything that you would say just because your not as old as them. This book is about a girl who is about 17 years old and she is going crazy. She tried...
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