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Excerpt from Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Wintergirls

by Laurie Halse Anderson
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  • Mar 19, 2009, 288 pages
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  • Mar 2010, 288 pages
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I eat ten raisins (16) and five almonds (35) and a green-bellied pear (121) (= 172). The bites crawl down my throat. I eat my vitamins and the crazy seeds that keep my brain from exploding: one long purple, one fat white, two poppy-red. I wash everybody down with hot water.

They better work quick. The voice of a dead girl is waiting for me on my phone.

Excerpted from WINTERGIRLS © Copyright 2009 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Reprinted with permission by Viking Juvenile. All rights reserved.

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