Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos is about 9th grader, Donnie, and his family. Donnie's older sister, Karen is anorexic and is ripping the family apart. Donnie begins to "disappear" as Karen takes up more and more space in his family's worries. Donnie is unpopular at school, and eventually makes it his goal to get through each school day with absolutely no contact with other people. He is mostly able to accomplish this goal. The friends he had have left him out so that he is eating lunch by himself at the end of the teacher table in the cafeteria. Karen gets worse and worse and ends up in a hospital twice.

This is one of the saddest books I've ever read. It is absolutely heartbreaking. I really liked the way the author made the story about the brother and his experience with his sister suffering from an eating disorder. Parts of this book were painful to read, but I believe it shows a true account of what an eating disorder can do to a family. This one is for more mature readers - there is some swearing and some adult content.