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Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life, but the intense pressure he puts on himself to get into prep school and dominate while there soon spirals into bouts of not eating or sleeping, and finally a suicide attempt that gets him checked into a mental hospital . . . 

Author Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, creates with It's Kind of a Funny Story a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness. 

"What's terrific about the book is Craig's voice.  It's intimate, real, funny, ironic, and one kids will come closer to hear.  Many readers will be familiar with the drugs, the sexual experimentation, the language, and, yes, the depression, or they'll know someone who is." -- Booklist