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Crazy

by Linda Vigen Phillips

Ages: 12+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Eerdmans BFYR

ISBN: 978-0-8028-5437-7

Keywords: Mothers and Daughters, Mental Illness

In 1963 a fifteen-year-old finds solace in art while coping with her mother's mental illnesses, and fears she will suffer the same fate.