Vanishing
by Bruce Brooks
Popularity 5
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.
Family problemsEmotional problemsDeathHospitalsFictionChildren's fictionEating disorders, fictionPeople with mental disabilities, fictionHospitals, fiction