# Crazy

**Author:** Han Nolan
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2010
**Page count:** 348
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780152051099`
**ISBN-10:** `0152051090`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/crazy
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When his mother dies and his father succumbs to mental illness, 15-year-old Jason struggles to retain his own sanity while envisioning a host of imaginary friends to help him maintain an outward semblance of normalcy. By the National Book Award-winning author of Dancing on the Edge.

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Reader's Choice Award (PNLA)

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 2013 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)

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