anorexia nervosa

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.

"Misfit Tally is forced to room with queen bee Ava on the seventh grade's extended field trip to Washington, D.C., and discovers several surprising things about her roommate, including the possibility of an eating disorder"--.

Introduces symptoms of anorexia and ways to recover.

"The story of [Elena Dunkle] a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia"--Publisher.

Explore eating disorders that people commonly have and how they are treated.

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.

Anorexic seventeen-year-old Lisabeth Lewis, appointed Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, revels in the freedom that comes with traveling the world on her steed, and having to visit places where hunger is a real part of everyday life gives her a new perspective on her own eating issues.

Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life--two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story--told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose--of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.

Elena Dunkle, cowriting with her mother, recounts her struggles with anorexia as a teen and twenty-something - from denial, to treatment centers, to recovery.

Fifteen-year-old Mike desperately attempts to take control as his parents separate and his life falls apart.