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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhat I Lost
Alexandra Ballard · 395 pages
When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.
Never Enough
Denise Jaden · 400 pages
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.
Second Star to the Right
Deborah Hautzig · 151 pages
As 14-year-old Leslie begins to shed the weight she feels makes her imperfect, she finds it increasingly difficult to reach out for the psychological help she knows she needs.
Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson · 288 pages
*“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.* Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what
Massive
Julia Bell, Andrew Biscomb · 280 pages
"I'm fat," I hear myself saying. I look in the mirror. My face has gone hot and red; I feel like I'm going to explode. "I'm fat." It sizzles under my skin, puffing me up, pushing me out, making me massive. Weight has always been a big issue in Carmen's life. How could it not? Her mom is obsessed with the idea that thin equals beautiful, thin equals successful, thin equals the way to get what you w
Hunger
Jackie Morse Kessler · 178 pages
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.
A Trick of the Light
Lois Metzger · 196 pages
Fifteen-year-old Mike desperately attempts to take control as his parents separate and his life falls apart.
The Stone Girl
Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Seventeen-year-old Sethie, a senior at New York City's Franklin White girl's school, has outstanding grades, a boyfriend, and a new best friend but constantly struggles to lose weight.
Perfect
Natasha Friend · 232 pages
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.
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy · 320 pages
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a
Reasons to Be Happy
Katrina Kittle · 288 pages
Eighth-grader Hannah Carlisle feels unattractive compared to her movie star parents and cliquish Beverly Hills classmates, and when her mother dies and her father starts drinking heavily, Hannah's grief and anger turn into bulimia, which only her aunt, a documentary filmmaker, understands.
Skinny: She was starving to fit in...
Laura L. Smith
When the pressures of having good grades, good friends, a position on the dance team, and the perfect boyfriend become too much for Melissa, she turns to strict dieting to regain control.
Stick Figure
Lori Gottlieb · 230 pages
After happening upon the diary she kept when she was 11 years old, Gottlieb was moved to publish this chronicle of her struggle with anorexia nearly 20 years after she wrote it. In the late 1970s, she lived with her parents and brother in Beverly Hills, where Gottlieb's loneliness and concern about looking attractive to boys swiftly transformed into an obsession with dieting, although she had neve
Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
Beatrice Sparks · 165 pages
I am so scared.I feel like I'm silently screaming for helpand no one pays any attention of tries to hear me.I can't control anything anymore.It's all out to get me!When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, sh
Zoe Letting Go
Nora Price · 288 pages
"Zoe goes to a facility to help cure her anorexia as she comes to terms with the loss of her friend and her own identity"--Provided by publisher.
The Disappearing Girl
Heather Topham Wood · 248 pages
Unbearable Lightness
Portia de Rossi · 320 pages
Known for her roles on the hit TV shows "Ally McBeal" and "Arrested Development," de Rossi delivers a revelatory and searing account of the years she spent secretly suffering from anorexia and bulimia, all the while living under the glare of Hollywood's bright lights.
Girls Under Pressure
Jacqueline Wilson · 205 pages
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher · 301 pages
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? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sen
Jane in Bloom
Deborah Lytton
Janes big sister, Lizzie, has always been the center of attention. No one ever pays attention to boring, plain Jane. But when Janes twelfth birthday marks the beginning of Lizzies fi nal descent into a fatal eating disorder, Jane discovers that the only thing harder than living in her big sisters shadow is living without her.In the wake of tragedy, Jane learns to look through her camera lens and f
Pointe
Brandy Colbert · 333 pages
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.
Perfect
Ellen Hopkins · 656 pages
Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the p
The Best Little Girl in the World
Steven Levenkron · 253 pages
Casey is an ideal young woman who finds herself trying harder to gain attention of those around her. She becomes consumed with her weight-loss rituals and the shape of her emaciated form. Her compulsion to continue to lose weight ultimately jeopardizes her life. The story follows the process she undergoes with a psychiatrist to seek a cure.