num_pages: 240
description: Juliet Kendall has been looking forward to her sixteenth birthday for what feels like forever. At first it seems like being sixteen is everything she hoped it would be she has great friends a cute almost-boyfriend a spot on the varsity girls basketball team and even a car of her own. But as the year goes on she discovers that her sister Carly is hiding a secret (bulimia) and realizes that in fact being sixteen may be her hardest year yet. Being Sixteen is a coming-of-age story about two sisters and their different struggles. It addresses what it means to have a testimony what it means to be a friend and what s involved in dealing with and overcoming an eating disorder.
language: English
title: Being Sixteen
publisher: Deseret Book Company