Rosoff, Meg.
Summary: To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSChoi, Mary H. K.
Summary: 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 by sickness, bound by family secrets, they learn more about themselves and each other than they may be willing to confront. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC SCHMurphy, Julie
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MURFishman, Zoe.
Summary: When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become. Growing up in Alabama, all Ruth Wasserman wanted was to be a blond Baptist cheerleader. But as a curly-haired Jew with a rampant sweet tooth and a smart mouth, this was an impossible dream. Not helping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISTownsend, Peggy
Summary: Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHRue, Nancy N.
Summary: Lucia Coffey longs to feel good about herself and her body, but she can't get the negative voices out of her head. Then she meets Sullivan Crisp, the decidedly unorthodox psychologist who is well-known for his quirky sense of humor and incorporation of 'game show' theology into his counseling sessions. He sees the beauty hidden in Lucia and sets about trying to help her find it for herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUESalvatore, Steven
Summary: Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he's plagued with the belief that he's not enough for anyone: he's recovering from an eating disorder and suffers from body dysmorphia fueled by his father, and can't quite figure out his gender identity. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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Summary: At a treatment center for girls with eating disorders, two seventeen-year-olds--headstrong rebel Rowan and Shoshana, who is a cheerleader on a reality television show--develop an intense bond, ultimately forcing them to decide between recovery and their relationship. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHHunter, Lindsay
Summary: "Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roxane Gay Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUNLeno, Katrina
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LENSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. After his fiancée's untimely death, he moves to Kansas to serve as a youth minister. But he can't set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian Lori Fowler's strained relationship with her father and her struggles with overeating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: "Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancée's untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start, but he can't seem to set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian, Lori Fowler is battling her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: Freya Braithwaite's seemingly perfect family life falls apart as she and her husband are confronted with the realities of her younger daughter's struggles with anorexia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Tori Spring isn't sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Alice Oseman's stunning, unflinchingly honest debut novel, which first introduced her fan-favorite Heartstopper characters Nick and Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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Summary: To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RosofOseman, Alice
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSEClarke, Diana
Summary: Rose and Lily Winters are twins. They feel each other's emotions, taste what the other is feeling, but their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts consuming everything Rose won't or can't. Now Rose is about to mark her one-year anniversary in a rehabilitation facility for anorexics. Lily, a kindergarten teacher, dates abusive men, including a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASwinarski, Claire
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWIMaschari, Jennifer
Summary: Emily Murphy is about to enter middle school. She’s sort of excited… though not nearly as much as her best friend Hazel, who is ready for everything to be new. Emily wishes she and Hazel could just continue on as they always have, being the biggest fans ever of the Unicorn Chronicles, making up dance moves, and getting their regular order at The Slice. But things are changing. At home, Emily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MASEverhart, Donna
Summary: A young woman in 1960's North Carolina resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EverhartThomas, Jennifer J.
Summary: "Are you a picky eater? Do you worry that food will make you vomit or choke? Do you find eating to be a chore? If yes, this book is for you! Your struggles could be caused by an avoidant / restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), a disorder characterized by eating a limited variety or volume of food. You may have been told that you eat like a child, but ARFID affects people right across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2021