Wintergirls

Wintergirls

• Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse.
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Pages: 288
• Publication Date: 2009-03-19
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: Hardcover
• MSRP: 0.00
• ISBN13: 9780670011100
• ISBN: 067001110X
• Other ISBN: 9781101029190
• Other ISBN Binding: print
• Language: en
• Store Location: Teen
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<i>“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls.<br> “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.<br> I am that girl.<br> I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.<br> I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.</i><p> 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.<p> 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.<br><br> </p></p>