eating disorders

"Nat, Lisa, and Sofia are best friends facing their final year of high school. When they make a joint New Year's resolution to become vegetarians for the upcoming year, none of them foresees the changes that will occur in their lives."--back cover.

Discusses the warning signs, causes, and treatments of anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating. Examines how real people, with emphasis on young adults 13 to 25, deal with eating disorders.

Rita Murray, overweight, undisciplined, and fearful, accidentally creates an alternative self in a virtual reality game who slowly becomes real and tries to take over Rita's life.

Provides important facts about the causes and treatment of eating disorders and discusses attitudes about food and dietig in general.

Examines some of the problems of the modern obsession with weight, including undernutrition, size prejudice, and industry manipulation; provides a model for preventing eating and weight problems before they happen; and affirms the right to health at any size.

Plectrude, a young girl in Paris whose mother killed her father over his mediocre taste in baby names and then killed herself, enters a prestigious ballet school and, at once indulged and pressured by her guardian aunt, becomes anorexic in her attempt to become the best and, as her mother wished, live an extraordinary life.

Marty faces the greatest challenge of her life when she is pulled out of high school and placed in the eating disorder unit of a hospital.