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1) Wintergirls
Author
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
2) Clean
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
4) Believarexic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An autobiographical novel in which fifteen-year-old Jennifer Johnson convinces her parents to commit her to the Eating Disorders Unit of an upstate New York psychiatric hospital in 1988, where the treatment for her bulimia and anorexia is not what she expects.
5) Hunger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Editiion.
Language
English
Description
It's summer in Moose Junction, and twelve-year-old Abby McCourt should be excited about the approaching solar eclipse--especially because she's obsessed with astronomy--but she's not. After the incident at the Memorial Day barbecue, nothing has been the same. Her friends avoid her. Her parents are stressed. And the one person she felt closest to--her older sister Blair--has been sent to a treament facility to learn how to eat again. But wait . . ....
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
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.
10) Skin & bones
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jack, who is sixteen and has anorexia, spends the summer in an eating disorder ward for teenagers and befriends both his overweight roommate and a dangerously thin dancer.
11) Good enough
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the hospital where she is receiving treatment for anorexia, twelve-year-old Riley records her days in her journal--going to therapy, rediscovering her love of art, dealing with her rule-breaking roommate, and worrying about relapse once she returns home.
12) Faerie
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Days away from turning eighteen, Lila has resolved to end her life. She is a patient in a psychiatric hospital being treated for anorexia. Lila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flash back to her childhood in the eighties, growing up in a small town as the overweight brown kid of Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolizes, and her mother, a housewife. Faerie weaves these passages with Lila's...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Misfit Tally is forced to room with queen bee Ava on the seventh grade's extended field trip to Washington, D.C., and discovers several surprising things about her roommate, including the possibility of an eating disorder"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Danah's eating disorder has a personality - it's a demon she calls Ed, the voice in her head that undermines her self-esteem and her perception of the world. How can she explain that even when she tries to develop healthier eating habits, there is a demon wriggling inside her mind, determining her every step? The eighteen-year-old author of this novel for teens brings her own journal entries to life, revealing the mental anguish of a teen suffering...
16) Skinny
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
17) Looks
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
20) Be-liev-a-rex-ic
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical novel in which fifteen-year-old Jennifer Johnson convinces her parents to commit her to the Eating Disorders Unit of an upstate New York psychiatric hospital in 1988, where the treatment for her bulimia and anorexia is not what she expects.
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