I just finished reading this book that my 12 year old daughter brought home from her school library. I find it unsettling that this book is accessible for her age range. Although the book describes the life of an ill/anorexic 18 year old, I think it also plants ideas into kids. Cutting, laxatives, how to count calories obsessively, lie, deceive, self destruct and down right kill yourself. My daughter is impressionable and having a book like this on her library bookshelf is scary. I don't need these issues shoved down her throat. I strongly urge parents to read the books their kids bring home. The messages in them are not only thought provoking but thought providing and could actually lead more kids down this path. I did not appreciate the author using homosexuality comments either. I believe there is a place for books such as these, but not for our young impressionable tweens and teens.