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1) Butter
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sought-after social media influencer Sara Vance, in recovery from an eating disorder, is coming into her own, with a potential career expansion on the horizon. Despite the good news, her successful siblings (and their perfect spouses) have a way of making her feel like the odd one out. So, when her unreliable boyfriend is a no-show for a Florida family vacation, Sara recruits Luis Navarro - a firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play...
4) Horrid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a general dissatisfaction with life. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener--and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice “Beans” Bennett's life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating disorder, and went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that Beans's mother is still alive—and in danger—Beans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the truth....
7) Purge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself.
8) Tyranny
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
120 p. ; ill. : 20 cm.
Language
English
9) Never enough
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Loann admires and envies her older sister Claire's strength, popularity, and beauty, but as Loann begins to open up to new possibilities in herself, she discovers that Claire's all-consuming quest for perfection comes at a dangerous price.
10) Hungry ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
198 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Nineteen-year-old Danny returns home after a disastrous first semester of college as a pre-med student and struggles with first love, grief, identity, and self-destructive behavior--
14) Looks
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
15) Yolk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
16) Taking up space
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner, and she really does not understand why she told Benny, her crush, about her mother--but when Benny offers to teach...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ivy, feeling a lot of stress about her expanding body, her parents' divorce, and her best friend's distance, develops an eating disorder.
19) Not Hungry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
June is fat. June also has an eating disorder, but no one sees. When she doesn't eat, her friends and family think they see a fat girl on a diet, not someone starving herself. When June's secret is found out by Toby, the new boy next door, she is panicked. Then she learns he also has a secret. Everyone has their own little lies.
Author
Language
English
Description
Junior high is where things really start to happen. Cliques form and break apart. Couples are made and destroyed. And, a reputation is solidified that you won't ever be able to escape. Everything you do and say, and everyone you spend your time with, matters.
Katie Mills knows that. She gets it. That's why she tried so hard to get in with the cool girls at school. And, why she was so devastated when those efforts found her detained for shoplifting...
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