Wintergirls

About this book

*“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.

Subjects

anorexia nerviosa
anorexia nervosa
anorexie mentale
anorexiques
aspect social
best friends
blended families
children's fiction
death
death, fiction
eating disorders, fiction
familia
families
family relationships
ficción
ficción juvenil
fiction
guilt
juvenile fiction
muchachas adolescentes
muerte
new york times bestseller
new york times reviewed
novela juvenil
nyt:chapter-books=2009-04-05
nyt:paperback-books=2010-04-18
patients
reading materials
realistic fiction
relations familiales
romans, nouvelles
social aspects
spanish language
spanish language materials
stepfamilies
teenage girls
young women