Summary
When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenaged girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend. Full description
Summary: |
When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenaged girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend. |
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Physical Description: |
193 pages |
ISBN: |
9780312581480 0312581483 |
Author Notes: |
Julie Halpern is the author of Into the Wild Nerd Yonder and Don't Stop Now , as well as the picture book Toby and the Snowflakes . In addition to writing, Julie is a middle-school librarian. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, lived in Australia for six months, and created a couple of zines before she started writing books, and realized she was and always has been a writer. She is married to the artist Matthew Cordell, and they live outside Chicago with their daughter and gloriously large Siamese cat, Tobin. |