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In Wintergirls (Penguin/Viking, 2009), Anderson is as unflinching and honest in presenting Lia, who learns on page one of chapter {001.00} that an anorexic friend has died “…body found in a hotel room, alone… ... Last week I was giving booktalks to 8th graders in both of my middle schools and with this book fresh on my mind and not enough copies to meet demand, I shared a number of other titles both fiction and nonfiction from Margaret Willey's 1983 novel, The Bigger Book ...