Wintergirls
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · February 23, 2010
A Young Adult pick for readers exploring Wintergirls.
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- Who it’s for
- A close, painful look at illness, grief, guilt, and the difficult reach toward recovery.
- Themes
- Disordered eating, Friendship and loss, Recovery and hope
- Genres
- Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens, Mental Illness for Teens, Death & Grief for Teens
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The New York Times bestselling story of a friendship frozen between life and death. “A fearless, riveting account of a young woman in the grip of a deadly illness.” —The New York Times Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest.
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But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss—her life—and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her. In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all: hope.
After the Loss
A close, painful look at illness, grief, guilt, and the difficult reach toward recovery.
Come here for
- A friendship shadowed by grief and guilt
- A struggle to hold on to hope
Expect
- Emotionally heavy material around illness and loss
- A focus on Lia’s painful path toward recovery
Where it sits
| Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens | 99% |
|---|---|
| Death & Grief for Teens | 81% |
| Mental Illness for Teens | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Illness & Disease Stories
- Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens
- Self-Harm & Cutting
- Authors
- Laurie Halse Anderson
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- February 23, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Disordered eating · Friendship and loss · Recovery and hope
- Reading lane
- YA Illness & Disease Stories