Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Featuring: Sarah Nelson
288 pages ISBN: 0316210587 EAN: 9780316210584 Kindle: B00A4H21CE Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Sarah Nelson dreads going into the seventh grade. Seventh
grade in Garland, Texas means doing a big Family Tree
Project and Sarah really, really doesn't want anyone to know
about her family. Her mother is Jane Nelson and when Sarah
was two, Jane turned on the water in the kitchen sink and
tried unsuccessfully to drown Sarah. Sarah's twin brother
Simon wasn't so lucky. Any time someone finds out about
Jane, Sarah and her father pack up and move. Garland might
be the armpit of the Texas, but it's still Sarah's home.
Inevitably, someone always finds out about Jane Nelson, but
this time Sarah has had enough running. Sarah wants answers
and there is only one person who can give them to her: her
mother.
SURE SIGNS OF CRAZY by Karen Harrington is a story of hope,
love, and courage that reaches deep inside the reader to
stamp itself on the heart. Harrington balances the humor of
Sarah's voice with the harsh reality of human imperfection
so that I laughed and cried simultaneously. It is a
beautiful story that shows human fragility and resilience
through the eyes of an extraordinary twelve year old girl.
Sarah keeps two diaries; one fake in case her father does
try to snoop and one real that she hides in the most unusual
places. She tells her potted plant all her secrets and
thinks about them blooming from Plant one day like flowers.
She also writes letters to Atticus Finch asking for advice.
She's funny, smart, and worries about boys and growing up
like any other girl. Then there is the Sarah that worries
that crazy is in her DNA. Without a doubt, Sarah's uniquely
witty voice and her struggle to find her own identity
outside of her genetic material makes this coming of age
tale one for all ages.
From the very first sentence, SURE SIGNS OF CRAZY pulls the
reader into Sarah's life with humor and heartbreak,
balancing the two perfectly to create a world of hope and
courage. I love everything about this story and highly
recommend it for tweens, teens, and adults. Sarah is warm
and funny, courageous and observant, and she is a wonderful
example of the very best in human nature. She loves and
hopes and worries but most importantly she tries to be a
better person. Read this story, you will not regret it. It
leaves the reader with hope for humanity, complete
satisfaction, a wish that Harrington will write more about
Sarah Nelson as she grows up, and a desire to read To Kill a
Mockingbird again.
You’ve never met anyone exactly like twelve-year-old Sarah
Nelson. While her friends obsess over Harry Potter, she
spends her time writing letters to Atticus Finch. She
collects trouble words in her diary. Her best friend is a
plant. And she’s never known her mother, who moved away when
Sarah was two.
Since then, Sarah and her dad have moved from one small
Texas town to another. Even though Sarah can see every inch
of her new neighborhood from her perch on the stump in her
yard, it still doesn't feel like home.
But when Sarah launches an investigation into her family’s
Big Secret, everything changes. She makes unexpected new
friends, and has her first real crush. And instead of a
“typical boring Sarah Nelson summer”, this one might just
turn out to be extraordinary.
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