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Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser
J HES / YA Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Tara
describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take
over her life and affect her relationships with her family and
friends.
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Checkers by John Marsden
J MAR / YA Fiction
Speaking
from a mental hospital, a teenage girl recounts the tremendous media
pressure that preceded the breaking scandal of the father's
unethical business dealings.
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Cut by Patricia McCormick
J MCC / YA Fiction
While confined to a mental
hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some
of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to
get better.
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A Dance
of Sisters by Tracey Porter
J POR/ YA Fiction
In this intimate portrait of the
rigorous world of ballet, Porter explores the many dances of life
and the bond between two sisters--12-year-old Delia Ferri and her
older sister Pearl--that sometimes only experience can reveal.
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Food
and Loathing by Betsy Lerner
362.27 LER
In Lerner's raw and witty
memoir of a 20-year battle with depression and compulsive eating,
the secret life of women and their self-esteem is vividly portrayed.
For every woman who calculates her worth on the morning scale, this
is her story, too.
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Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life
by Tracey Gold
791.45092 GOL
Actress Gold, now 33 and a happily
married mother of two, is best known for her role as brainy teenager
Carol Seaver in the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains. But thanks to the
tabloids and other popular press (including People, which featured
Gold on its cover 10 years ago), she's almost equally well known for
her battles with anorexia, which reached a crisis as the show ended
its seven-year run in 1992. Gold reflects on why she became anorexic
and how she overcame the illness.
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Stick Figure by Lori
Gottlieb
616.85263 GOT
From the diaries she kept as an 11-year-old, the
author's wry, perceptive account of her near-fatal struggle with
anorexia nervosa is told with an unguarded openness not seen since
Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted.
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Horbacher
616.85263 HOR
Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic,
and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable
middle-class American home. Why would a talented young girl go
through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is
down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak?
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