Lia never answered they hadn’t spoken in five months.
Just before she died, she called Lia thirty-three times. Her friend, Cassie, has just died in a motel somewhere nearby of unknown causes. She’s moved out of her mom’s house (her mom is a doctor) and in with her dad and step-mom who she thinks she can more easily convince that everything is okay. She tinkers with the scale and weighs herself down with quarters to keep her parents from knowing how much weight she is still losing. She tabulates the calories of every item of food she eats (or even sees, for that matter). Wintergirls follows Lia who has been struggling with anorexia for years – she’s been in and out of a hospital for treatment twice, but it’s made no difference. Laurie Halse Anderson is having a good year, is what I’m saying. Edwards award for lifetime contributions to children and young adult literature.Īnd now, in a week, out comes Wintergirls, a book with a million positive reviews already about two girls with eating disorders. It too got a National Book Award nomination and went on to win the Scott O’Dell award for historical fiction. Then, last fall, she wrote Chains about a slave girl during the Revolutionary War. It got a National Book Award nod and went on to be on basically every YA list that exists. Laurie Halse Anderson shot to fame ten years ago with her book, Speak. 8 out of 10: It’s a beautifully-written book, but hard to read and not something everyone will have an interest in.
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