Junior high is where things really start to happen. Cliques form and break apart. Couples are made and destroyed. And a reputation is solidified that you won’t ever be able to escape. Everything you do and say, and everyone you spend your time with, matters.
Katie Mills knows that. She gets it. That’s why she tried so hard to get in with the cool girls at school. And why she was so devastated … devastated when those efforts found her detained for shoplifting and laughed out of cheer squad tryouts.
But Katie has more to worry about than just fitting in. Her parents are divorced and always fighting. Her sister never has time for her. And her friends all seem to be drifting apart. Even worse? The boy she has a crush on is dating the mean girl at school.
Everything is a mess, and Katie doesn’t feel like she has control over any of it. Certainly not over her weight, which has always topped out at slightly pudgier than normal—at least, according to her mother.
So when she happens to catch one of the popular girls throwing up in the bathroom one day, it sparks an idea. A match that quickly engulfs her life in flames.
Is there any going back once she gets started down this path?
And would she even want to if she could?
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I think every teenage girl and adult should read this book. It was sad and made me cry a few times, but it was amazingly written and real!! I loved the struggle and transformation Katie and her friends and family go through. It wasn’t a fairytale, but real life and issues that plague too many girls. Very well done!
It was good read, it was a bit predictable in some ways. I enjoyed the developed relationships between Kit Kat and her parents and sister. It would have been nice to have an epilogue.
Eye opening. Good read
Made me tear up very realistic couldn’t put it down would make a great book for school discussion
A book I would recommend for someone or their family members who are or have suffered eating disorders. Puts life in perspective from a young adult’s view point on how they are judged by family and friends.
If you want a truthful story about bulemia and what causes it and how it progresses this is a good book to read. It seems that the author or someone she loves has this experience.
Very informative about teenagers going through eating disorders, it is the story of a girl and what she went through and how she felt