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Original Title:	Skin
ISBN:	141690655X (ISBN13: 9781416906551)
Edition Language:	English

Skin

Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Hardcover | Pages: 227 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 2969 Users | 221 Reviews

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Title	:	Skin
Author	:	Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 227 pages
Published	:	March 21st 2006 by Margaret K. McElderry (first published January 2nd 2006)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Health. Mental Health. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Mental Illness

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I'M TELLING YOU THIS BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ASK. I'VE GOT IT ALL HERE, GROWING LIKE A TUMOR IN MY THROAT.

I'm telling you because if I don't, I will choke on it. Everybody knows what happened, but nobody asks. And Elvis the EMT doesn't count because when he asked, he didn't even listen to me answer because he was listening to my sister's heart not beat with his stethoscope. I want to tell. It's mine to tell. Even if you didn't ask, you have to hear it.

Fourteen-year-old Donnie's older sister, Karen, has always been the one person in his life on whom he could totally depend. But as Karen slowly slips away in the grip of an eating disorder, Donnie finds himself alone in facing the trauma of his parents' faltering marriage and his new life as an outcast at school.

Donnie makes it his responsibility to cure his sister's illness and fix his parents' issues, letting every part of himself disappear in the process. It is more important -- and somehow easier -- to figure out if today is a day when Karen is eating, or to know if Dad and Mom are sleeping in the same bedroom, than to deal with his own problems. In the end, though, Donnie must decide whether to float through life unnoticed, or to claim his rightful place as a member of his family and of the world. This powerful story from a brilliant new talent introduces a memorable boy in Donnie, who, from his funny and painfully honest point of view, describes a harrowing year that leaves both him and his family forever changed.

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Ratings: 3.9 From 2969 Users | 221 Reviews

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This is an amazing book that literally will break your heart. I LOVED the perspective of this book, especially since it's different compared to others. It's so sad, messed up, relatable, real and upsetting that made it more appealing for me. Great great great read!

Want to see more bookish things from me? Check out my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfer...3.5/5 Stars 14 year old Donnie is struggling to keep his crumbling family together. His sister, Karen, is sick with an eating disorder, his parents are constantly fighting and his social life at school is non-existent Donnie decides that by becoming invisible is the best way to keep everyone else from falling apart.I really liked that this was told from Donnie's point of view rather

Karen is sick. She refuses to eat and the only person she talks to is her friend Amanda. And Amanda listens. So when Karen eats dinner over Amandas house most nights Amanda plays along. But this story isnt about Amanda. Its about Donnie and how he struggles to see his sister eat, his dad actually come home to see his family once and awhile, and to stay invisible anymore. Becuase he feels as if everything is up to him, and if anything changes his world will come crashing down.Normally Im more

Wow. Is it possible to like a book and be deeply disturbed by it at the same time? Adrienne Maria Vrettos has a unique and personal writing style and I was caught by the subtle flow of her work. This book circulated around a boy growing up in a difficult family while his sister deals with an eating disorder. This book had a deep honesty to it that made it hard to put down. I feel like I can't say I enjoyed it, because it was fairly perturbing, so I would only recommend it to readers who feel

14-year old Donnie narrates this book about his sister, Karen, and her bout with anorexia. A self-professed nobody, Donnie depends on his sister to be his friend, but his homelife and especially his parents' relationship is shattered as Karen's disease spirals out of control. Thinking that it will somehow help his sister, Donnie "disappears" into himself, and what results is a powerful narrative on what it's like to be the "other" child--the sibling often forgotten in the wake of family tragedy.

I picked this book because my librarian had recommended it to me. Since we have the same taste in books. I had read the summary and fell in love instantly. 'Skin' is a page turner from beginning to end. The flow of the sentences, to the pages to the chapters are all perfect. Through out the whole book i could not put it down. I was up reading the book most nights past 12 o'clock. I could never find a spot to put down 'Skin'.'Skin' begins with Donnie, a eight grader moving on to ninth. High

Donnies life is falling apart. His parents fight all the time, his only friends wont hang out with him anymore, his grades are terrible, and his sister, Karen, is anorexic. No one sees Donnie, and hes working hard to be invisible so that everyone can focus on making Karen better. But, like most anorexics, Karen doesnt want to get better she only wants to get thinner. This story is rather unique in that its told from Donnies point of view rather than Karens (most of the fiction about eating