[.ca] Second Star To The Right (ISBN 0141305800)

From Amazon.com:
Leslie Hiller's world is growing smaller. It used to be large enough to include her worrisome but loving mother, her doting father, her close friend Cavette, and all the other people and places that made up her upper-class, A+ life. But now it has shrunk to the size of a dinner plate full of food--which she scrapes out her bedroom window to avoid eating. Leslie, a perfectionist who loves to be in control, finds she can't control the fear that she will somehow fail to be the perfect daughter, perfect student, and perfect friend. So she decides to master the one thing over which she is certain she has complete domain: food. Even when it becomes apparent to everyone that her severe dieting has become a life-threatening habit, Leslie still can't stop: "I want to be happy. And being happy means being thin." Author Deborah Hautzig, who recounts her own painful battle with anorexia in a very personal and heartfelt afterword, gives Leslie a frighteningly realistic voice that will ring true to teens everywhere. First published in 1981, Second Star to the Right has risen again to give a new generation of young adults valuable insight into the addictive world of anorexia, and hope for getting out from under the cruel thumb of the disease. (Ages 12 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert

Only if you're 9 years old:
This book offers the most naive perspective about ED's out there. I was highly disappointed by it, I expected a realistic view on the issue.

gets into the head of an ed:
It's hard to explain to people without an eating disorder what craziness goes on in the mind of an eating disordered person. this book does it.

One of the best books ive read in a long time:
I loved tihs book sooooooo much. I picked it up at the library and couldnt put it down. I could realate to the main character(leslie) and i just felt so grateful to read about someone who saw things almost the exact same way i did. Anyway, if you have ever struggled with an eating disorder i definatly recommend this book for you will be able to relate and be spell-bound by it. I hope that anyone who has been debating with themeselves over whether to read this or not will defianatly pick up the book and give it a chance. Even if you have never struggled with an eating disorder, it will allow you to get a brief glimpse into the mind of an anorexic and see that people dont choose to get like that. Anyway, i sincerly hope you pick this book up and enjoy it as much as i did.

INCREDIBLE:
This book has the potential to pave the way for a real understanding of the anorexic mindset. Hautzig's appealing, humorous, and at times heartbreaking portrayal of Leslie allows readers to journey with her into the black hole that is an eating disorder. Writing from Leslie's perspective rather than third person narrative avoids the usual difficulties that the reader has in empathising with the protagonists of other anorexic stories. The haunting, brutally honest nature of this book makes it stand out so far it his hard to believe Hautzig was so young when she wrote it. Two thumbs up! :)

A Must:
Little things had stuck with me as much as this story, Leslie potrays a lot of things about youth that are still valid. The plot is vivid, Leslie's relationship with her mother is an honest representation of mom and daughter. I would recomend this book to anyone, there are so much things you can get out of it! And its not at all preachy or moralist.