Wintergirls

By Laurie Halse Anderson
(Viking Juvenile, Hardcover, 9780670011100, 288pp.)

Publication Date: March 19, 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback

Categories: Social Issues - Depression & Mental Illness, Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Spring '09 Kids List

“Wintergirls searches to find meaning behind the pain women hold inside themselves. Anderson gives a terrifying glimpse into a young girl's struggle with an eating disorder that grows into horrible self mutilation. Even though I found the subject scary, Anderson's insight into it was enlightening and inspiring!”

-- Sarah Hill, The River's End Bookstore, Oswego, NY

Description

“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 are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend’s restless spirit.

In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia’s descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.

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