Wintergirls

By Anderson, Laurie Halse

Publishers Summary:
“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls.“Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.I am that girl.I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies.But now Cassie is dead. Lia’s mother is busy saving other people’s lives.Her father is away on business. Her stepmother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia’s head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way – thin, thinner, thinnest – maybe she’ll disappear altogether.In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the National Book Award finalist Speak, best-selling author Laurie Halse Anderson explores one girl’s chilling descent into the all-consuming vortex of anorexia. Winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award 2009

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ISBN
978-1-42339-187-6
Publisher
Brilliance Audio


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Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on September 1, 2010

When her former best friend, Cassie, is found dead and alone in a motel room, Lia's anorexia and addiction to cutting spiral out of control. She becomes haunted by self-loathing and the knowledge that the bulimic Cassie called her thirty-three times the night before she died. Narrator Stith performs Lia's strea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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