<DIV><DIV></div> <i>“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls.<br> “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.<br> I am that girl.<br> I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.<br> I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.</i><p> Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend's restless spirit.<p> In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's descent into the powerful vortex of anorexia, and her painful path toward recovery.<BR><BR> </div>