Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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,...
Author
Language
English
Description
After a social media disaster, Clara leaves New York to spend the summer with her estranged father in Paris, where she is charged with the care of her autistic six-year-old brother, Alastair.
Growing up in New York City with her mother, a prima ballerina, Clara has never felt good about her body. After a social media disaster, she leaves to spend the summer with her estranged father in Paris. There she is charged with the care of her autistic six-year-old...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
Series
Language
English
Description
From Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’, and acclaimed coauthor Crystal Maldonado comes the sequel to the hilarious and creepy middle grade summer-camp story—this time featuring werewolves!
Last year, Maggie and Nora didn’t exactly get the summer of their dreams. Instead, they had to survive a camp run by a covert clan of vampires. But this year, Camp Sylvania is back and under new management—gentle,
...Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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 . . ....
8) Butter
Author
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.
9) Solitaire
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tori has friends. She has brothers. She has parents. Sometimes she can be bothered to talk to them. Most of the time, though, she would prefer not to have to deal with other people. Until the day she follows a trail of Post-its from her locker to a deserted computer lab, where she finds a message from a mysterious group called Solitaire. It's also where she meets Michael Holden. Irrepressibly cheerful, weird, and determined to be her friend, Michael...
10) Under pressure
Author
Language
English
Description
"Elise comes from a long line of college athletes. More than anything else, she wants to wear the University of North Carolina uniform and play for the college where her parents went. It's a lot of pressure, but if she works hard, she just might make it. At least that's what Elise thinks before she notices that some of her teammates are outplaying her. And a UNC scout is visiting in a few weeks. That's where the pills come in. Taking "performance...
11) Age 16
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race, beauty, size, and worth, for fans of Mariko Tamaki. Sixteen-year-old Roz is preoccupied with normal teenage stuff: navigating high school friendships, worrying about college, and figuring out what to wear to prom. When her estranged Por Por abruptly arrives for a seemingly indefinite visit, the already...
12) Perfect
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
13) Food fight
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This book follows the 'It happened to me' fictional journals of different young people who have an eating disorder. These stories from survivors explain what it is like to struggle with food, and how having an eating disorder happened to them. The stories and information in this book can support people suffering from eating disorders and help everyone better understand them"-- Page 4 of cover.
15) Not hungry
Author
Series
Language
English
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.
17) Hunger
Author
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
Language
Español
Description
"Abril no quería ser flaca. Envidiaba las curvas de sus compañeras. Al final, llegó la pubertad y se fue la delgadez. Hoy, contra sus deseos, ostenta la etiqueta de gorda. Sudaderas extragrandes, comidas clandestinas y burlas de sus compañeros son su calvario. Su madre (no lo sabe, pero su etiqueta es maléfica) le da una brillante idea: dieta rigurosa y ejercicio al límite. ¿Resultado? Más angustia. Hasta que un día una supuesta nutrióloga...
Author
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.