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GIRLS
UNDER PRESSURE
Jacqueline Wilson
Hardcover Delacorte Books for Young Readers | June 2002 | $9.95
| 0-385-72975-8 | Ages 12 up
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If you have a best friend,
then you know you couldn’t live without her —though
sometimes you’d like to try. Nadine, Magda, and Ellie, are
best friends, who often get on each other’s nerves and hurt
each other’s feelings. But they stick together like best friends
should.
Both Nadine and Magda are thin and model-perfect
and Ellie wants desperately to be like them. So, much to the surprise
of her family and friends, she begins to diet and exercise. However,
as the weight drops, Ellie’s personality begins to change
and her friends become concerned for her. But the other girls have
problems of their own: Magda’s boyfriend tries to take advantage
of her, and push her into a sexual relationship, lying about what
they do and don’t do. While Nadine goes to a modeling agency
to get pictures for a portfolio from a very shady character.
Through it all, friends they are and friends they will remain.
COPYRIGHT
Prepared by Susan Geye, Library Media Specialist,
Crowley Ninth Grade Campus, Crowley, TX
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