Everything Changes

Reader reviewed by K.P.P.

This book is about a self-conscious teenager coming into a new town. When she finds out that everyone is staring at her she soon goes on a crazy diet not eating anything. Soon she develops an eating disorder but tries to hide it. How will she change the way she looks without hurting her health. This book gives you an inside look on teenagers who are uncomfortable in their skin. You can really understand why people have eating disorders after reading about this character.

Reader reviewed by Casey

In the book Everything Changes there is a girl named Kathryn.Most of her friends call her Katy though.She starts out happy and then there are a lot of sudden drastic changes.When Katy finds out that she and her parents are moving to Sarasota,Florida then she starts to notice that she is a little bigger than the rest of her friends or in her own words,a beach ball on legs.Before she moves she finds out that the guy that she has liked for so long finally has a crush on her too.To lose weight Katy starts to eat less.And after her family moves away from her home in Atlanta,Georgia to Sarasota Katy develops an eating disorder.She doesn't eat as much and after a while,she quits eating.When Katy becomes very sick from the eating disorder she is put in a hospital.After many visits and even being an "inpatient" Katy starts to get better along with the help of her new friend Jason who she met at the beach.
Katy is very similar to me!I have an eating disorder myself and recently tried to start eating normally again because this book has taught me what can happen if my problem keeps up.

Reader reviewed by Shana

Everything Changes was a great book and intense. for me the beginning did not capture me and was hard to read because i didnt really like it. it seemed almost too intense too soon. but torwards the middle it captured me and i could not stop reading!!!!! i loved it !!!!!!!!!!!!! i loved the relationships and the heart and drive!!!!!!!!

Reader reviewed by Sandra F.

Being 14 can be the worst time of a girl's life and for Katy it certainly was the very worst. What could be worst than moving to a different state just when things seem to be going great for a change?

This book is all about control. Katy believes that her life is out of control because she has no choice in the move or her new school. The only thing that she can control is her own body. So she starts to diet in the hope that being thinner will help her to fit in at her new school.
Soon Katy has lost control again and she has to be put in the hospital for her eating disorder.

Finally Katy decides to fight back against her illness and regain control of her life. New friends and a new boy in her life help her to get well again.

Reading this book is a very emotional experience. The author makes you feel all the emotions that Katy feels. It was really so great to read a book where the character had real life problems to overcome and the fact that she was able to overcome them was an inspiration.

Reader reviewed by Anna

I'm a freshman in high school and I read this book, Everything Changes, because I felt like I might be able to identify with Katy. All my friends are a size 2 or 4. I always feel so horrible being so much bigger than they are. But after reading this I understand now that the problem is with me, not with them. I have to like myself or no one else will. People will accept me for who I am, a not so perfect size.

I think everyone should read this because it doesn't really put so much emphasis on the disorder as it does just a real true to life story. In fact, until Katy ended up in the hospital, I really though she was fine. I felt her parents should leave her alone and let her just do what she wanted. I think that it hit me that she was in trouble when it hit Katy because thats the kind of book it is. You actually become the character.

It's a book that everyone can get something out of. Even if you don't have an eating disorder, it's also about family life and how hard it is to be an only child. It's about having to move and leave your friends and about losing the first person you thought you loved. I enjoyed reading it and I'll read it again and again because I know that it will help me when I start feeling bad about myself. I hope that I can find more books from this author because she is really in touch with teenagers.