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Thin

Book Review by: laura ingalls    

Original Author: Marjan van Abeelen
This abstract was translated from Dun
Lien isn''t what you would call en beauty, she''s fat en people often make fun of her.  She has lang darkbrown hair
and green eyes.  She''s very sweet and loved. Her twin sisters find it horrible that Lien likes being alone and they tease her a lot.  They confront her with the fact that she is fat and one day, Lien decides is''t time to loose waight.  Paaty, who has just moved to the block, becomes a good friend and will help her.  Lien tries very hard but somestimes she just can''t resist temtation.  At that time, no food in the house is safe for her.  She eats everything she can find and feels quilty afterwords.  Her stomac can''t handle all this food so Lien make''s herself vomit.  Eating, vomitting, eating, vomitting...  Patty doesn''t know about this because Lien keepes the vomittig a secret.  But she looses waight.  Then she meets Jim, who is interested in her and they start dating. On a school vacation with the class Lien freakes out that she can''t vomit. But she can''t resist and than Patty finds out.  Together they talk to Lien''s parents and Lien decides she needs professional help...
Published: March 02, 2008
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