When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations -- especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control -- or can she?
Beatrice Sparks Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Beatrice Sparks was een Amerikaanse auteur die bekend werd door haar boeken, gepresenteerd als de 'echte dagboeken' van probleemtieners. Deze werken behandelen actuele thema's zoals drugsgebruik, satanisme, tienerzwangerschappen of AIDS, en dienen als waarschuwende verhalen. Sparks positioneerde zichzelf als de ontdekker en redacteur van deze dagboeken, hoewel de archieven aantonen dat zij als enige auteur werd vermeld. Gedreven door haar ervaringen met adolescenten, wilde ze verhalen creëren die andere jongeren zouden waarschuwen om niet in vergelijkbare valkuilen te trappen.
This is the story of a 15-year-old American drug addict. Based on the pages of her diary, it tells how Alice discovered drugs, sex and the kind of freedom her parents only disapproved of. Sometimes she worries about what is happening to her; sometimes she resorts to subterfuge to avoid worrying her family; and sometimes she confides all her anxieties, joys and sorrows to the one friend she can trust - her diary.
Annie's Baby
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- 9 uur lezen
When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day she can turn her life around. She decides she wants to keep her baby and dreams of loving and caring for this little person. But after the baby is born, it's in her diary that she faces the agonizing question: Can she really raise this child on her own?