The Luckiest Girl in the World
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- Synopsis
- Katie is a promising figure skater whose divorced mother drives her relentlessly to perfect her skills, at almost any expense. What her mother and coach don't know, but her English teacher begins to figure out, is that when Katie gets to an emotional edge, she hides and cuts herself; the pain and blood help focus her mind. Not until she goes over that edge one day at school and begins slamming her locker door on her hand and then banging her head on the wall does she begin to get the professional help she needs. After a couple of false starts, she finds a psychiatrist experienced in working with teens in trouble who enables her to tell truths she hasn't for years been able to admit to herself or speak of to anyone else. Her mother resists other adults' help and almost succeeds in getting her out of therapy, especially group therapy with girls her mother labels "delinquents." But Katie finally manages to make some choices against her mother's wishes--an immense step out of the depths of years of co-dependence. As the story ends, she has come to realize the girls in the group are capable of being real friends--something she hasn't had for a long while--and she is capable of making choices toward her own healing, the first of which is to seek and accept real help and to distinguish it from pleasing adults who are using her to assuage their own pain.
- Copyright:
- 1997
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 123 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 03/23/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Steven Levenkron
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Teens, Disability-Related, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Samantha Nelson
- Proofread By:
- Caitlin Lynch
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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