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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real
people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,
places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any
resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
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Copyright © 2006 by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
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part in any form.
Book design by Yaffa Jaskoll
The text for this book is set in Manticore.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vrettos, Adrienne Maria.
Skin / Adrienne Maria Vrettos.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When his parents decide to separate, eighth grader Donnie
watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister,
Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-0655-1
ISBN-10: 1-4169-0655-X (hardcover)
eISBN-13: 978-14424-4407-2
[1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Anorexia nervosa—Fiction. 3. Family
problems—Fiction. 4. Self-perception—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.V9855Sk 2006
[Fic]—dc22
2005001119
