anorexia nervosa

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 life. When she lands in a treatment center, Margaret finds her path to recovery twisting sideways as she pursues a string of new mysteries involving a ghost, a hidden passage, disturbing desires, and her own vexed relationship with herself"--Provided by publisher.

Budding astronomer, Abby McCourt, should be over the moon about the upcoming solar eclipse this summer. But she just can't get excited after the events of the Memorial Day barbecue. Her friends are avoiding her, her parents are stressed, and her sister, Blair, has been sent to a treatment facility for her anorexia. When famous astronomer, Dr. Leo Lacamoire comes to town in search for his lost telescope, he enlists the help of Abby, and they set out to solve the mystery.

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.

"If you have a teen with an eating disorder, such as anorexia, bulimia or binge eating, you may feel powerless, worried or uncertain about how you can best support them on the road to recovery"--Back cover.

In the hospital where she is receiving treatment for anorexia, twelve-year-old Riley records her days in her journal--going to therapy, rediscovering her love of art, dealing with her rule-breaking roommate, and worrying about relapse once she returns home.

Five drug addicts, reluctantly facing rehabilitation, are forced to confront truths about their pasts as well as their darkest secrets with a group of strangers and learn how to live without getting high.

Anna records her struggles with anorexia--which she personifies as Tyranny, her tormentor--in her journal, and describes her efforts to overcome her deadly enemy through strength of character.

Explores the causes, treatments, and consequences of anorexia and bulimia.

Forced to seek treatment after her anorexia and depression made her lose too much weight, professional dancer Anna Roux is admitted at 17 Swann Street. There she meets three other girls who are also struggling with their own problems. All of them are on a journey and fight to reclaim their lives.

Explores the causes, treatments, and consequences of anorexia and bulimia.