Second Star to the Right
- ISBN-10
- 1406315494
- ISBN-13
- 9781406315493
- Series
- Second Star to the Right
- Category
- Anorexia nervosa
- Pages
- 170
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Author
- Deborah Hautzig
Description
On the face of it, Leslie is a normal, healthy, well-adjusted fourteen-year-old girl. She goes to a good school, has a great friend in Cavett, and a mother who loves her to the moon and back. She should be happy, yet she's not. She would be, she thinks, if only she were thinner. But ''thinking thin" becomes a dangerous obsession and Leslie's weight drops to five stone, threatening to destroy her and the whole fabric of her family life. Only by realizing that this condition is an illness -and one that has its roots in a deep problem -can Leslie hope to survive.
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- 2008-11-28
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