
"EVERY DAY, MEAL BY MEAL, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SUFFER FROM EATING DISORDERS. I AM ONE OF THEM."
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GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS: 2008 NOMINATIONS
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
The Saga Of The Bloody Benders
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
Nat Turner: Vol. 2, Revolution
BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS: 2008 NOMINATIONS
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
QUICK PICKS FOR RELUCTANT YOUNG ADULT READERS: 2008 NOMINATIONS
99 Ways To Cut, Sew, and Deck Out Your Denim
Chasing Yesterday: Book 1, The Awakening
The Periodic Table: Elements With Style
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
TEENS TOP TEN: 2007 NOMINATIONS
What Happened To Cass McBride?
4 comments:
One thing our teacher pointed out to me was to add links to the things mentioned in the book/review. you should probably add a link about eating disorders.I don't know if a book is supposed to give away the ending, but since you told me that Nadia gets help and turns out fine, I dont know if I need to read the book, I think i know the ending. You could have left out the ending, but I can't tell. I took off the ending when I reviewed "A Long Way Gone" because of Tom's suggestion. Just an idea.
I especially like your thrown in quotations. It serves well as a hook, too.
I also like your description of how she meets her eating disorder like another person/personality that sometimes is an alien and sometimes a lover, but eventually it takes control over her.
One little tiny missing comma confused me, though. In your sentence "At the age of fourteen years old Nadia Shivack met ED her eating disorder" I need one between ED and her eating disorder. I needed quite awhile to find out who the heck ED is. Also, I think "years old" is redundant in the same sentence.
I suggest to break up your review into more paragraphs and to give the position of your second quotation another thought.
This is definitely something all young women should be aware of and
I think your review of the book tells one just enough. I had to
think for a minute or two why she
refereed to her disorder as ED.
I liked how you summarized the book.
Mary
Amanda, I thought your hook of quotes from the book was great. I think that everyone at some point in their lives has had issues about self esteem and their body, which would make me want to read this with my teenage students. I really enjoyed your summary, and was surprised to find out it was a graphic novel. As I was reading your summary I thought it was a book similar to Cut, which is a teen's perspective on cutting. However, when I got to the end of your review and saw that it was a graphic novel, I was happy to see that so much content was conveyed in a graphic novel. Sometimes I get concerned that graphic novels do not convey as much information as a novel does. But your review proved me wrong and I appreciate that because I need to be reminded that graphic novels are not just pictures, but they are stories that use intense illustrations to express them.
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