Teen eBook of The Day
Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen
4.5 stars – 1,171 reviews
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she’d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.
Kaysen’s memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a “parallel universe” set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
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The Colorless Chameleon
by Hayley Irvin, Rachel Bostick, Cassidy Reynolds
5.0 stars – 8 reviews
Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:
What does Chameleon do when she loses her colors? She gets them back, of course! With a party coming up, there’s no time to spare. Join Chameleon on her journey through the jungle to learn how she goes from colorful to colorless and back again.