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Author: Morgan Menzie
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 192
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ISBN: 0849944058
UPC: 023755021519
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Publication Date: April 16, 2003
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Product Description

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.

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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A Simplistic Description of Anorexia March 31, 2009
Emily O (East Hills, NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Morgan Menzie's efforts in putting words to her eating disorder are heroic. I flew threw the book in only a few days and was drawn in by the diary style of the book. The story was simple and ordinary. A little too ordinary, however. Although I understand that the story was, for the most part, a true story, I found it hard to buy into the reality of the main character developing an eating disorder. Yes, "Blythe" was rejected by boys and had trouble making friends, but really... that would drive someone to anorexia? For a more sympathetic read, try Wasted by Marya Hornbacher, or Loss and Found by Karen Flyer. Both of these memoirs are far more believable and compelling stories of adolescent angst and eating disorders.

1 out of 5 stars

Disappointment in the Making December 11, 2008
Jamie Noelle Lions (WA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

After reading Wasted, I made the mistake of assuming that this story would be just as satisfying to read. However, I felt that I was reading a diary of an immature teenage girl who really had nothing to discuss. There was nothing spectacular about this book. It's just about a girl wasting her time. The 'climax' points are vague and I felt that I was outside looking in and not getting a clear picture of what was going on inside this girl's mind.

5 out of 5 stars

astonishing! August 15, 2008
Lyubov Berisnev
When i first saw this book at my local public library
i thought "that looks like a really weird book" and only people who have or have expirienced anorexia read books like this one.
But the next time i went to the library i saw it again and decided to give it a second chance..
What do you know i couldn't put it down it was such a great book!
Blythe is an exceptional character who's struggle with anorexia felt so real.
This book needs to be known because hundreds of teenage girls have this disease and this book will help them in a way.
I give this book 5 stars!

2 out of 5 stars

Not what I thought May 19, 2008
C. Bell
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book was not about what I thought it would be. She barely talks about having an eating disorder. Its more about her life with her friends, family, and school, which is fine, but thats what most teen books are about. I think that The Best Little Girl in the World gives a better understanding of what having an eating disorder means.

3 out of 5 stars

Worth the read, a little too fluffed. December 16, 2006
Stephanie J. Bequeath (United States)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful

Aside from a minor time inaccuracy (within the first couple pages) the author's diary approach seemed a bit unauthentic. Perhaps I am too far removed from being so young, but even as the book moves on I wonder if I teen would really write so... young-like? Rather than wanting to cry "Eat! Eat!" by the end, I wanted to cry "Mature! Mature!" Getting past these things I did enjoy reading the book. As with many of these books she just seems to fall into her disorder, and it is obvious here.

I liked it.

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