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Diary of an Anorexic Girl

by Morgan Menzie · 2003

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Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs and tragedies all unfold together in this beautiful story of God's grace.

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Features include: daily eating schedule, journal entries, prayers to God, poems, and what she wished she knew at the time. It's the true story of victory over a disease that is killing America's youth.

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2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thishigh schoolhigh schoolMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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