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Eating Disorders

These books about eating disorders can be found at the Morse High School Library. For more books like these, search the library's online catalog. Use the following subject headings:

Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa-Fiction
Bulimia
Bulimia-Fiction
Eating disorders
Eating disorders-Fiction
Eating disorders- Treatment

Coping with Eating Disorders

Carmen Cusido

Provides straightforward information about what triggers disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder; how to identify the signs; signs of an impending relapse; and steps toward recovery.

Genre: Non-Fiction

Call Number: 615.85 CUS

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

The best-selling author of Bad Feminist presents a searingly frank memoir of food, weight, self-image and learning how to feed one's hunger in healthy ways, drawing on the popular essays of her long-running Tumblr blog to illuminate the challenges of navigating the boundaries between self-comfort and self-care.

Genre: Memoir

Read Woke Book at Morse

Call Number: 362.196 GAY

Lighter Than My Shadow

Katie Green

In graphic novel format, Katie Green, who recovered form a eating disorder and child abuse, looks at her life.

Genre: Graphic Novel; Autobiography

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Call Number: 616.85 GRE

Love & Other Carnivorous Plants

Florence Gonsalves

Nineteen-year-old Danny returns home after a disastrous first semester of college as a pre-med student and struggles with first love, grief, identity, and a eating disorder.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC GONSALVES

The Art of Starving

Sam. J. Miller

Matt avoids eating, thinking it gives him powers, while he tries to find out what bully Tariq did to drive away Matt's sister Maya.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC MILLER

Size Zero: My Life As a Disappearing Model

Victoire Dauxerre

Former fashion model Victoire Dauxerre tells her story of becoming a model and the pressure to lose weight which lead to her eating disorder.

Genre: Autobiography

Call Number: 92 DAUXERRE

This Impossible Light

Lily Myers

Fifteen-year-old Ivy, feeling a lot of stress about her expanding body, her parents' divorce, and her best friend's distance, develops an eating disorder.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC MYERS

Believarexic

J. J. Johnson

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.

Genre: Autobiographical Fiction

Call Number: FIC JOHNSON

Purge

Sarah Darer Littman

When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC LITTMAN

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Call Number: FIC ANDERSON

Elena Vanishing: A Memoir

Elena and Clare B. Dunkle

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

Genre: Memoir

Call Number: 616.85 DUN

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