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Filling the void in written resources for teenage girls with eating disorders, "Perk!" is the first title in Gurze's new education and prevention series for kids, teens, and young adult. Perk, whose real name is Priscilla, is a high school student with self-doubts, weight concerns, and puppy love--all of which impel her into bulimia.
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《學校圖書館期刊》(School Library Journal)評論
Gr 6-9Eating helps Perk forget her nervousness. A whole basket of crackers, a cheese omelet, large shake, muffins, and a wedge of cake smother the hurt when her father calls her a "fat ass" in a fit of temper. She fails to please her gorgeous mother, so she eats. The guy she's been crazy about all year proves to be a creep, so she eats. Finally, guilt and weight gain set in. She discovers that vomiting quiets the voice in her head that screams, "You're fat!" Then her baby sister almost drowns while Perk is throwing up instead of watching her. At the hospital, a doctor also examines Perk. Her sunken eyes, skeletal frame, and blistered throat reveal her bulimia, and she, too, is admitted. With the help of a caring teacher, a new friend, and a support group for adolescents with eating disorders, the teen begins her recovery. Hall conveys Perk's horrible cycle of gorging and throwing up in a way that allows readers to feel her hopeless pain and shame. However, while the teen's eventual recovery saves the book from bleakness, it seems too easy. In the last chapter, she has managed two days without throwing up. In the epilogue, Perk seems almost totally well. Although it is one year later, and Perk admits it "gets really hard," a one-chapter recovery seems incredibly fast after 14 chapters of pain. Still, readers may close the last page with the realization that hope exists.Leigh Ann Jones, Gee Jr. High, Pilot Point, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《書目》(Booklist)評論
Gr. 6^-9. Narrator Priscilla "Perk" Sinclair is a chubby, repressed tenth-grader with a dangerous secret: when life becomes overwhelming, she binges on food, then vomits. Priscilla has a tough life, what with her distant, disapproving, overachieving parents (both good-looking and quick-tempered); her unrequited crush on a gorgeous, dangerous guy who wants her help hiding a "borrowed" luxury car; her rejection by her pretty girlfriend; and the death of a beloved pet. When Perk's little sister nearly drowns while Perk is indoors trying to vomit instead of outdoors baby-sitting, Perk and her parents are forced to acknowledge her bulimia and begin the healing process. Although it is a heavy-handed cautionary tale with predictable plot and flat characterization, it does convey a sense of Perk's mental anguish and confusion, and medical details are realistic and convincing. A resource list is included. There is little current YA fiction on the subject; a better choice is Leslea Newman's Fat Chance (1994). --Jean Franklin