Mandy Siegfried
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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss, in the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls. Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at meal time,...