Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn' t want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.
year: 1987, 1988, 1996, 1997
call number/section: 1000
subjects: united states, social life and customs, 1865-1918, fiction, eating disorders, fiction, anorexia nervosa, fiction, women, fiction, accelerated reader ar, easy read
Editions
Terris, Susan
Farrar (1987)
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.
Schools: 1
Terris, Susan
Scholastic (1988)
Nell wants to go to college, but her parents are forcing her to marry her cousin. Would she rather die?.
Schools: 0
Terris, Susan
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (1996)
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.
Schools: 0
Terris, Susan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1997)
Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn' t want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.
Schools: 0