"Brilliant, intoxicating, full of drama, love and, like
the best books of this kind, hope" Melvin Burgess, OBSERVER
"This is necessary reading" - Booklist
"A startlingly crisp and pitch-perfect first-person narrative"
- SLJ
"As difficult as reading this novel can be, it is even
more difficult to put down" - Publishers Weekly
Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick
bodies.
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
in this way - thin, thinner; thinnest - maybe she'll disappear
altogether.
A heartbreaking, triumphant, hopeful story of two girls' battles
with anorexia from award-winning author, Laurie Halse Anderson.
A brave and moving look at anorexia from an acclaimed YA author
Laurie Halse Anderson has won the ALA Best Books for Young Adults,
the International Reading Association Teachers' Choice, the
2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and was a National Book Award
and Edgar Allan Poe Award finalist
Perfect for fans of GIRL IN PIECES, THE GIRLS I'VE BEEN and EUPHORIA
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Laurie Halse Anderson grew up in Syracuse, New York, and now lives in Pennsylvania with her two daughters. The author of three picture books, 'Speak' was her first novel. Widely reviewed, it was a National Book Award finalist in the States, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, as well as winning the 1999 Gol
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