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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia" --Amazon.com.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less...
5) Skinny
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
6) Wintergirls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
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"Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it's not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive--and...
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After she discovered the affair and divorced her husband, Dana Sue Sullivan decided to create the best restaurant in Serenity, South Carolina. Years of hard labor has made her dream a reality, providing Southern comfort food and a haven for the whole town. But when her teenage daughter Annie's eating disorder lands her in the hospital and her own health starts to deteriorate, Dana Sue is forced to change her life again, even if it means letting her...
12) Skin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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When his parents decide to separate, eighth-grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.
16) The happy room
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Drawn together by their sister's tragic illness, each of the Mossman siblings must face the truth of their past. As they reminisce about both good and bad memories of their childhood in Africa, they discover the God who never left them.
17) Letting Ana go
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.