Wintergirls“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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 10 |
Section 4 | 27 |
Section 5 | 44 |
Section 6 | 56 |
Section 7 | 60 |
Section 8 | 62 |
Section 22 | 176 |
Section 23 | 185 |
Section 24 | 187 |
Section 25 | 191 |
Section 26 | 196 |
Section 27 | 204 |
Section 28 | 207 |
Section 29 | 215 |
Section 9 | 68 |
Section 10 | 76 |
Section 11 | 81 |
Section 12 | 84 |
Section 13 | 90 |
Section 14 | 111 |
Section 15 | 113 |
Section 16 | 124 |
Section 17 | 129 |
Section 18 | 130 |
Section 19 | 145 |
Section 20 | 163 |
Section 21 | 175 |
Section 30 | 226 |
Section 31 | 239 |
Section 32 | 242 |
Section 33 | 245 |
Section 34 | 255 |
Section 35 | 273 |
Section 36 | 274 |
Section 37 | 278 |
Section 38 | |
Section 39 | |
Section 40 | |
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