Get Well Soon
by Julie Halpern
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Reviewed by Christian C. for TeensReadToo.com
Anna is fat and depressed. She suffers from panic attacks, and has stopped going to school. Her parents, who are totally clueless, decide to send her to a mental hospital. Will that do any good? Anna doesn't think so! Not in this place. Nobody tells her anything, they have the weirdest rules ever, and she's forced to wear these ugly pajamas all day long with no bra!
But as days go by, things turn out to be not as bad as she originally thought....more
Anna is fat and depressed. She suffers from panic attacks, and has stopped going to school. Her parents, who are totally clueless, decide to send her to a mental hospital. Will that do any good? Anna doesn't think so! Not in this place. Nobody tells her anything, they have the weirdest rules ever, and she's forced to wear these ugly pajamas all day long with no bra!
But as days go by, things turn out to be not as bad as she originally thought....more
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Read in November, 2007
I came across Julie Halpern's first novel while browsing the offerings over at Feiwel & Friends. I was so grateful they were publishing Long May She Reign that I grabbed both Carpe Diem and Get Well Soon because if they're publishing Ellen Emerson White books ...more
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Read in February, 2008
I read this book in one sitting. I had ordered it for the library and by the time it was cataloged and processed and put on my desk I had forgotten about it. Anna Bloom is a depressed, overweight, unhappy and possibly suicidal teenage girl. And her psychiatrist recommended she be placed in a mental hospital for supervision and help getting well. So that's where we start our story. Anna is in the hospital and boy isn't she happy about it. She takes us through her journey as the weeks pass by and...more
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I loved it. There were so many hilarious parts in this book. Not to mention the fact that Anna has a kickass taste in music in this book ;]
It's one of those books where you want to know what happens to the character in the future. It's the type of book that you want to keep reading and reading but you've already turned the last page and staring at the smiley face sticking out its tongue at you. Oh well.
I loved this book. I would definitely reccommend it for anyone who wants a good laugh and...more
It's one of those books where you want to know what happens to the character in the future. It's the type of book that you want to keep reading and reading but you've already turned the last page and staring at the smiley face sticking out its tongue at you. Oh well.
I loved this book. I would definitely reccommend it for anyone who wants a good laugh and...more
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Read in July, 2007
Teen heroine is committed by her parents to a facility for troubled teens, where - most oddly - surrounded by misfits she comes to terms with her own quirks and challenges.
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As she sees it, Anna Bloom has been carted off to the loony bin. Why? Anna has extremely low self-esteem. She is constantly afraid people will make fun of her for how she looks or what she does. This fear makes her have panic attacks. And apparently, Anna’s parents just didn’t know how to deal with her, so they sent her off to a slightly crazy shrink (who thought everything was sexual in some way). When that didn’t work, she was then sent to Lakeland Hospital, a mental institution. And a s...more
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Read in February, 2008
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Read in March, 2008
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Young Adult
I liked Anna Bloom and her take on things. Her parents have committed her to a mental hospital (Lake Shit) because she won't talk to people or go to school. Now she is with other disturbed teens going through therapy, managing to progress through different levels with more privileges and (her mother will be happy) she is losing weight because she is not eating. She was so miserable before but this place isn't so bad. She likes her roomate and her plastic baby doll. She gets along with the ...more
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Stupid cover. The title isn't very good either. I took the dustjacket off and liked the book a whole lot more. Seriously. If they had been a little more creative, I'd consider giving the book five stars.
What's it like inside a mental institution? This book will tell you. It's about a depressed girl who is put in a facility by her parents, and begins the path to recovery almost in spite of the program she's forced to take part in. She's smart and quirky, but doesn't learn the joy of breaking ...more
What's it like inside a mental institution? This book will tell you. It's about a depressed girl who is put in a facility by her parents, and begins the path to recovery almost in spite of the program she's forced to take part in. She's smart and quirky, but doesn't learn the joy of breaking ...more
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Read in July, 2008
When we first meet Anna, she is sitting in one of those desk/chair combos, in a dimly lit hallway, bored, scared and confused. Unfortunately, it's not for Detention...much, worse, her parents have just left her at a mental health facility for teens.
You see, some time ago, Anna stopped going to school. She was so paranoid that she might fart, or get IBS, or have some guy see her eating, that she's be conning her way out of classes. Her parents finally had enough, and they've sent her for tre...more
You see, some time ago, Anna stopped going to school. She was so paranoid that she might fart, or get IBS, or have some guy see her eating, that she's be conning her way out of classes. Her parents finally had enough, and they've sent her for tre...more
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Very funny. The cover doesn't do this one justice. A reasonably sane, extremely pithy teenage girl gets plopped into a mental ward because she's stopped going to school for fear her Irritable Bowel Syndrome will act up (there are other issues, but you get the gist). She records her experience in letters to her best friend.
"This is so pointless, and I feel gross because I'm sitting in the middle of a hallway with paper-thin pajamas on, and I'm not wearing a bra. In real life, I wouldn't...more
"This is so pointless, and I feel gross because I'm sitting in the middle of a hallway with paper-thin pajamas on, and I'm not wearing a bra. In real life, I wouldn't...more
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Read in July, 2008
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saw at ALA last year and never got around to reading
Just started this one the other day. The main character is moderately interesting and very realistic. From what I've heard about psych wards her description sounds about right. We'll see how it goes.
One example of the (unsurprisingly dark) humor in the book:
"Why are they always seating us in circles? So we don't kill ourselves on the corner of a square setup?"
A realistic story with humor and warmth.
One example of the (unsurprisingly dark) humor in the book:
"Why are they always seating us in circles? So we don't kill ourselves on the corner of a square setup?"
A realistic story with humor and warmth.
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Read in June, 2008
tries to pull off the chatty, funny style of English books a la Georgia Nicolson but it just comes off as kind of vapid and inappropriately fluffy - I mean, it IS a mental hospital that she's committed to, not a boarding school or a summer camp. I'm all for good fun but this is like an actual teenagers diary or blog, which, if you've ever stumbled across them on the interwebs, is painful.
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Read in April, 2008
This book was pretty cute. Authentic narrative voice, adept handling of the journal-style entries, and nice character development. A good dose of feminist body politic as well, though the fact that the main character is "better" once she loses weight and kisses a boy is a bit tired. I was pretty cuted out by the disabled-on-disabled love story though.
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