Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
Ever since she hit puberty, Yasmin has been gaining weight. And her mother’s weekly weigh-ins and constant sniping about her size is making Yasmin binge eat in secret and choose to purge to hide her eating - and other drastic dieting choices. Tension at school is not much better. First there is Yasmin’s personal mean girl, Zoe. Strangely Yasmin and Zoe have a n interaction that gives them both some empathy, but angers Yasmin’s best friend, Carmen, who has stuck with Yasmin through everything. While everything is so messed up, there are glimmers of hope amongst the set-backs as Yasmin reaches out for help, however reluctantly.
While the cover doesn’t lend itself to insta-attraction, if you can get one girl to read this, I think it will gather a small following. Morrison captures the tension between Yasmina nd her mother, Yasmin and Zoe, and even Yasmin and Carmen so well. While the issues need to be addressed and somewhat solved within the time of the book, it doesn’t feel like “magic” solutions - the setbacks feel authentic.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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