num_pages: 278
description: Lia and Cassie are best friends wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate lossher lifeand Lia is left behind haunted by her friend's memory and feeling guilty for not being able to help save her.In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle her painful path to recovery and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of allhope.
language: English
title: Wintergirls
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers