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Language
English
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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 for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone...
3) Skin & bones
Author
Language
English
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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.
4) Pointe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Four years after Theo's best friend, Donovan, disappeared at age thirteen, he is found and brought home and Theo puts her health at risk as she decides whether to tell the truth about the abductor, knowing her revelation could end her life-long dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer.
5) Hunger
Author
Series
Riders of the Apocalypse volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Wintergirls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
9) Believarexic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
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.
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Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Sarah Jacob was the most famous of the Victorian fasting girls, who claimed to miraculously survive without food, serving as flashpoints between struggling religious, scientific, and political factions. ...An American journalist, recovering from her husband's death in the Civil War, leaves her home and children behind to travel to Wales, where she investigates Sarah's bizarre case by becoming the young girl's friend and confidante....
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Language
English
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Description
Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. Margaret and her three best friends led exciting lives solving crimes, having adventures, and laughing a lot. But now that she's entered high school, the club has disbanded, and Margaret is unmoored?she doesn't want to grow up, and she wishes her friends wouldn't either. Instead, she opts out, developing an eating disorder that quickly takes over her...
12) Looks
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
14) Frío
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
Español
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
15) Skinny
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Working as a mother's helper in New York City, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself caught in the middle of a troubled relationship between an eccentric writer and her anorexic daughter.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Although almost totally consumed by her ballet training and her obsession with controlling her weight, thirteen-year-old Delia finds time to worry about her strange and rebellious older sister Pearl, who has been sent away to a private school.
18) Skin
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Coteau Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Rayanne Timko is only a few months into her senior year of high school, and her biggest concern should be deciding on a university and career path. But while her classmates are filled with anticipation, nothing in her life seems to going smoothly, and Rayanne finds herself struggling to overcome anorexia. She has a new friend: Ed - the seductive and demanding presence in her head who insists she be as skinny as possible. With Ed around,...