The Lucky Kind

Jay's Journal (Anonymous Diaries)

Burnout

Dandelion Clocks

Smaller Sister

G.S.O.H.

How to Disappear Completely

Finding a Voice

She feels like a creature out of a fairy tale; a girl who discovers that her bones are really made out of stone, that her skin is really as thin as glass, that her hair is brittle as straw, that her tears have dried up so that she cries only salt. Maybe that's why it doesn't hurt when she presses hard enough to begin bleeding: it doesn't hurt, because she's not real anymore.Sethie Weiss is hungry, a mean, angry kind of hunger that feels like a piece of glass in her belly.She's managed to get down to 111 pounds and knows that with a little more hard worka few more meals skipped, a few more snacks vomited awayshe can force the number on the scale even lower. She will work on her body the same way she worked to get her perfect grades, to finish her college applications early, to get her first kiss from Shaw, the boy she loves, the boy who isn't quite her boyfriend.Sethie will not allow herself one slip, not one bad day, not one break in concentration.Her body is there for her to work on when everything and everyone elseher best friend, her schoolwork, and Shaware gone. From critically acclaimed writer Alyssa B. Sheinmel comes an unflinching and unparalleled portrayal of one girl's withdrawal, until she is sinking like a stone into her own illness, her own lonelinessher own self.

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The Lucky Kind

Alyssa Sheinmel, 2011

Jay's Journal (Anonymous Diaries)

Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks, 1979

Burnout

Rebecca Donner, 2008

Dandelion Clocks

Rebecca Westcott, 2014

Smaller Sister

Maggie Edkins Willis, 2022

G.S.O.H.

Andrew Matthews, 2001

How to Disappear Completely

Ali Standish, 2020

Finding a Voice

Kim Hood, 2014