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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Signet)
 

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Signet)

by Joanne Greenberg

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity. (read review)

Top tags: fiction,  psychology,  young adult,  coming of age,  contemporary fiction (all tags)

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Fifi L
  • Rated 5 stars

“i read this in high school. i enjoyed reading it. it is about a teenage schizophrenic girl who spends her teen years inside a mental institution, trying to get better. i enjoy reading psychological novels.”

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Autumn S
  • Rated 1 stars

“What a disappointment. Reading this book was pure agony.”

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  • Rated 3.714286 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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  • Emie Z

    emie z said:

    “I saw the movie starred by the late Kathleen Quinlan. I like the story. When kids find reality inconvenient, they retreat to their own imaginations - to a world those of us who care enough will know a little about, but none of us will ever see.”

    posted Monday, November 19 2007
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