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Author
Series
Camp Sylvania volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp, and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
2) Butter
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
3) Solitaire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tori Spring feels completely disconnected from her life--until she meets the relentlessly cheerful Michael Holden, and a series of schoolwide pranks starts to draw her out of her shell"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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 he...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring, and even his friends are starting to bug him. Not to mention that his older sister, Emma, has been acting pretty strange, even though Noah thought she'd been doing better ever since the Thing They Don't Talk About. The only place he really feels at peace is in art class, with a block of clay in his hands"--Amazon.
6) Not hungry
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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. -- from Amazon.
7) Never enough
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
8) Sad perfect
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Pea, eating has always been difficult. Some people might call her a picky eater, but she knows it's more than that, and it's getting worse. And now there's a monster raging inside of her, one that controls more than just her eating disorder. The monster is growing, and causing anxiety, depression, and dangerous thoughts. When Pea meets Ben and they fall crazy-mad in love, she tries to keep the monster hidden. But the monster wants...
9) Horrid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from sunny California to the dreary, dilapidated old house in Maine where her mother grew up. All they want is a fresh start, but behind North Manor's doors lurks a history that leaves them feeling more alone...and more tormented. As the cold New England autumn arrives, and Jane settles in to her new home, she finds solace in old books and memories of her dad. She steadily begins making...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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 treatment facility to learn how to eat again. But wait ......
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ivy's world is in flux. Her dad has moved out, her mother is withdrawn, her brother is off at college, and her best friend, Anna, has grown distant. Worst of all, Ivy's body won't stop expanding. She's getting taller and curvier, with no end in sight. Even her beloved math class offers no clear solution to the imbalanced equation that has become Ivy's life. Everything feels off-kilter until a skipped meal leads to a boost in confidence...
13) Yolk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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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.
Jayne and June are nothing alike. Their family moved from Seoul to San Antonio and finally New York. The sisters don't want anything to do with each other... until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Now, flung together...
16) What I lost
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and her peace of mind. As a result, she's finally a size zero. She's also the newest resident at Wallingfield, a treatment center for girls like her-girls with eating disorders. Elizabeth is determined to endure the program so she can go back home, where she plans to start restricting her food intake again.She's pretty sure her mom, who has her own size-zero...
17) Food fight
Author
Publisher
Fitzroy Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ben Snyder has always been a very picky eater, and suddenly everyone has a problem with that--from his parents to a bully at school. As a multi-day school trip approaches where Ben knows there will be nothing on the menu he can eat, he struggles to come up with a plan to either fit in...or find the courage to stand out.
18) Paperweight
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days...
19) Smaller sister
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister is a debut middle grade graphic novel about body image, confidence, and the everlasting bond of sisterhood. Lucy's always looked up to her big sister, Olivia, even though the two are polar opposites. But then, Lucy notices Olivia start to change. She doesn't want to play with Lucy anymore, she's unhappy with the way she looks, and she's refusing to eat her dinner. Finally, Lucy discovers that her sister is not...
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