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Can I read The Stone Girl on EtoBox?
The Stone Girl by Alyssa B. Sheinmel is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Stone Girl about?
She feels like a creature out of a fairy tale; a girl who discovers that her bones are really made out of stone, that her skin is really as thin as glass, that her hair is brittle as straw, that her tears have dried up so that she cries only salt. Maybe that's why it doesn't hurt when she presses hard enough to begin bleeding: it doesn't hurt, because she's not real anymore.High school senior Sarah Beth (Sethie) Weiss is disciplined. She has never cut a class in her life, has never had a grade below a B+, and has always been a favorite among her teachers. Her college applications are finished and she only ate six Ritz crackers today. But even on days when Sethie needs to eat more, there's always the toilet to make up for her mistakes. Sethie manages to get down to 104, and maybe if she works just a little bit harder, becomes a little more disciplined, she can get below 100. Truth be told, Sethie has more to worry about than her relationship with her body; but the...
Who reads The Stone Girl?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alyssa B. Sheinmel
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375970801
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Children'S
- Rating
- 3.26 / 5 (622 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14