Joanne Greenberg

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Alternating between reality and hallucination, a 16-year-old schizophrenic girl struggles to attain mental health during her 3 years in a psychiatric hospital.