Her body can no longer handle the stress that she is putting on it, and she doesn’t make it out of the contest for the skinniest girl alive. Lia and her very best friend, Cassie, have spent years counting calories, starving themselves, and doing whatever they need to do in order to lose weight and be the skinniest. I am the bones they want, wired in a porcelain frame.” I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. ‘Tell us your secret,’ the girls whisper, one toilet to another. “‘Dead girl walking,’ the boys say in the halls.

Laurie Halse Anderson did not sugarcoat anything in her novel she told the truth through her characters’ eyes, whether or not the world was ready to read something so incredibly raw. For that reason, I can’t give this book enough praise. This book was difficult, it was sad, it was angry – it was everything full of real emotions that will make you see so many things through a different light.

It was not a flowery, happy-go-lucky little book wrapped up with a bow that will bring tons of sunshine into your life. Well that, and the cover just really drew me in for some reason. That’s probably why I wanted to read Wintergirls so badly. They feel so real and so important, and I feel like I can never get enough of really good books that deal with rough topics like these. For some reason, I really love books that tackle tough issues, such as mental health issues, eating disorders, etc. The whole premise for this book really interested me.

I always enjoyed that book, and this was on my to-read list for a long time, and finally I decided to get a copy of this and dive into it. It had been a long time since I read Speak – I read it years ago when it was first published.

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