 | The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
Buy used from: £0.01 Beautifully described and atmospheric mystery set in a girl's boarding school. Unusually, the adult and teenage characters are equally well portrayed.
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 | Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.17 Simply the best book I have ever read about the process of developing and 'recovering' from an eating disorder.
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 | The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £0.01 Another school mystery, this time with a supernatural focus.
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 | Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite book from childhood which I still re-read today (at the age of 31). Great lead character that those of us who were clever, intense children will relate to.
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 | The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £0.01 Novel about the gradual mental disintegration of a woman faced with the future she is expected to have in 1960's America.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Classic feminist piece set in an imagined future where woman are valued purely for their ability to breed.
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 | Speak Daggers to Her by Rosemary Edgehill
Buy used from: £0.74 Murder mystery in which Bast, Wiccan high priestess, investigates the sudden death of her friend.
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 | Hopscotch and Handbags: The Essential Guide to Being a Girl by Lucy Mangan
Buy used from: £0.01 Very funny, although I suspect less so if you were one of the popular girls as it is written from the point of view of someone who was more on the margins.
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 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 Vibrant description of living with depression in the years before everyone was on Prozac
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 | Girl, Interrupted: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie by Susanna Kaysen
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Autobiographical novel set in a psychiatric ward in the 1960's. The film is also good.
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