Eating disorders and body image Books

Shy, fat Hannah Smith has a popular thin twin sister, a slender mother obsessed with cleaning, and a fat father in prison for violating federal laws against distributing junk food.The U.S. government controls access to chocolate and other foods...

Evie is a fourteen-year-old girl who comes to the realization that she is extremely overweight following a number of events in her life that cause her to admit that she is unable to fit into the clothes she loved to wear. With the encouragement and...

Larkin and Reagan have always been at odds, competing for everything Larkin lost two years of her life to post-concussion syndrome. As she stands at the beginning of her new life, she wonders if she's even the same person she once was. Abandoned by...

Even from the moment she was born, it was clear that Becky Bexley was not like other children. Her family were shocked by her behaviour!Just a few years later, and she's in secondary school, often seeming wiser than her teachers. She does her best to...

For girls who want to know where we can find our true value, beauty and purpose.Are you looking for a book that challenges us to question where we've got our ideas about beauty and identity from? Are you looking to find the identity God created you for?...

Inspired by the memory of her mother to register for this year's Newport Bridge Run, Rhode Island's most popular long-distance running race of the year, 14-year-old Michelle Natale envisions herself getting fit, sporting a perfect body, and finally...

I thought moving to a new town in the middle of my senior year was a death sentence. Turns out, it was the opposite.When my parents got busted for selling prescription painkillers, I was forced to move to a new town. And I decided enough was enough. I...

An inspirational story of the power of the mind to heal. Australia, 1950s. Ivy, a teenager from an immigrant family, is on the cusp of adulthood, struggling to survive undiagnosed anorexia nervosa. She endures primitive electro-convulsive...

When Willow Farrington first meets Isaac Silberstein she doesn't know what to expect. He's a gnome-like old man who survived a World War II concentration camp, and she's an almost-14-year-old who is just back at school after a four-month stay...

Charlie is really funny… and really fat. She spends her life hating high school, living for her next stand-up comedy class, eating whatever she wants, being the funniest person in the room, and not caring what other people think.The two things she...

I’ve taken the best of the best! Within this book is 100 of my most favorite pages from 365: Positive Words for a Teenage Girl. This travel sized, bag size, easy to carry, read, borrow and lend size, is easy to have by your side 365 days a...