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The author describes her troubled years with anorexia and bulimia, disorders she embraced until a bout with them during her college years changed her perspective.

Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.

Emily Colas explains what it was like to have an obsessive-compulsive disorder and discusses how it affected her life.

Presents a true story written by an anonymous fourteen-year-old teenage who reveals how she fell for a handsome college student who raped her and infected her with the HIV virus.

The story of twelve-year-old Teddi Mervis and her fight against cancer.

The mother of a teenage leukemia victim describes the courageous way her son spent the years before his death.

Lucy Grealy describes her journey to find physical beauty after surgery left her face disfigured.