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

Name: Wintergirls
Rating: 4.9 (8 reviews)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 9780670011100

Wintergirls

by Laurie Halse Anderson

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First Published:
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.

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