Skinny
A Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, High School book. I feel exposed. The camera is my nemesis. Right up there with mirrors. Donna Cooner, Skinny
Find your voice.Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies’s head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her. Ever knows she weighs over three hundred pounds, knows she’ll probably never be loved, and Skinny makes sure she never forgets it. But there is another voice: Ever’s singing voice, which is beautiful but has been silenced by Skinny. Partly in the hopes of trying out for the school musical—and partly to try and save her own life—Ever decides to undergo a risky surgery that may help her lose weight and start over.With the support of...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780545427630 / 545427630
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It just wasn't fair. God made some people naturally skinny and some people naturally fat. I'd never know how my life would have been different if I'd been one of the ones He made skinny. I didn't know how He chose. This one will be blonde, with long thin legs and great skin. This one will be short and fat with legs that rub together when she walks. I just knew I wasn't one of the lucky ones. Donna Cooner, Skinny This isn't the way the fairy-tale is supposed to end. Everyone knows that. Donna Cooner, Skinny It's like being on a tightrope stretched tightly between two skyscrapers - the past and the future. Donna Cooner, Skinny
This book inspired me so much that I wrote a speech about it... And presented it in front of my entire class... Admittedly, books about weight loss and the challenge of living with extra weight have a lot to live up to when I read them. I know it's a bias. But there are also many thresholds that need to be met, regardless of my own bias toward them. Unfortunately, this one was not satisfying.When Ever is 15, she's over 300 pounds. She grief eats... There are two things I consider when writing my reviews: What I felt while reading and how I feel once I've finished the book. But I'm not sure what to do when these two feelings don't fit, like with Skinny. I really liked it while reading, but now that I think about it, lots of it is pretty bad. And I still can't decide which of those...
