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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
August 28, 2012
Pages
214
Binding
Library
Book category
Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375970801
ISBN-10
0375970800
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$19.99
Other format details
juvenile
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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. Sheâs managed to get down to 111 pounds and knows that with a little more hard workâa few more meals skipped, a few more snacks vomited awayâshe 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 isnât quite her boyfriend.
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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 elseâher best friend, her schoolwork, and Shawâare gone.
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From critically acclaimed writer Alyssa B. Sheinmel comes an unflinching and unparalleled portrayal of one girlâs withdrawal, until she is sinking like a stone into her own illness, her own lonelinessâher own self.
Sethie Weiss is hungry, a mean, angry kind of hunger that feels like a piece of glass in her belly. Sheâs managed to get down to 111 pounds and knows that with a little more hard workâa few more meals skipped, a few more snacks vomited awayâshe 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 isnât quite her boyfriend.
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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 elseâher best friend, her schoolwork, and Shawâare gone.
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From critically acclaimed writer Alyssa B. Sheinmel comes an unflinching and unparalleled portrayal of one girlâs withdrawal, until she is sinking like a stone into her own illness, her own lonelinessâher own self.
Editions
Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (August 28, 2012)
9780375870804 | details & prices | 214 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | Rec. grade levels 10-12 | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Ember (August 6, 2013)
9780307931009 | details & prices | 214 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.45 lbs | List price $8.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
Library
The price comparison is for this edition
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (August 28, 2012)
9780375970801 | details & prices | 214 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 10-12 | 0.70 lbs | List price $19.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
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