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1) Perfect
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Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
2) Solitaire
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"Tori Spring feels completely disconnected from her life--until she meets the relentlessly cheerful Michael Holden, and a series of schoolwide pranks starts to draw her out of her shell"--
5) Looks
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2008.
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English
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Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
7) Skinny
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2006.
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English
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After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
8) Horrid
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2020.
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English
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Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets.
10) Taking up space
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Twelve-year old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner, and she really does not understand why she told Benny, her crush, about her mother--but when Benny offers to teach...
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[2017]
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English
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"Emily Murphy is about to enter middle school. She's sort of excited--though not nearly as much as her best friend Hazel, who is ready for everything to be new. Emily wishes she and Hazel could just continue on as they always have, being the biggest fans ever of the Unicorn Chronicles, making up dance moves, and getting their regular order at The Slice. But things are changing. At home, Emily and her mom are learning to move on after her parents'...
13) Island affair
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Keys to love volume 1
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English
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"Sought-after social media influencer Sara Vance, in recovery from an eating disorder, is coming into her own, with a potential career expansion on the horizon. Despite the good news, her successful siblings (and their perfect spouses) have a way of making her feel like the odd one out. So, when her unreliable boyfriend is a no-show for a Florida family vacation, Sara recruits Luis Navarro - a firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play...
14) Guy's girl
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2023.
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"Ginny isn't sure which came first-the bad habit or the boy. They showed up at almost exactly the same time, like two trains pulling into one station from opposite directions. And when they left, it took much longer for one to go than the other. On the surface, the two seem completely disconnected-one a human being, the other a human defect-but at their core, they're both powered by the same thing: false versions of love. One the wrong way to love...
15) Saving Ruth
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[2012]
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English
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When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become. Growing up in Alabama, all Ruth Wasserman wanted was to be a blond Baptist cheerleader. But as a curly-haired Jew with a rampant sweet tooth and a smart mouth, this was an impossible dream. Not helping the situation was her older brother, David, a soccer star...
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"Mindy is a young woman living with an eating disorder and trapped in a battle for her own self-worth. When she accidentally discovers something that will give her a chance to revist her past--the relationships she's lost, the mistakes she's made, all of it--she thinks she has a chance to undo every wrong, to put her life back on track. But will she be able find a way back to her present, and just as important, a way to treat herself with love and...
17) Camp Sylvania
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[2023]
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English
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"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight...if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp--and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
18) Yolk
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[2021]
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English
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Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
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2024.
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English
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"Once upon a time teenage Aurora Evans met a hockey player at the Mall of America. He was from Canada. And soon, he was the perfect fake boyfriend, a get-out-of-jail-free card for all kinds of sticky situations. I can't go to prom. I'm going to be visiting my boyfriend in Canada. He was just what she needed to cover her social awkwardness. He never had to know. It wasn't like she was ever going to see him again... Years later, Aurora is teaching kids'...
20) Smaller sister
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2022.
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English
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Little Maverick Graphic Novels 2023 (Gr. K-5)
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Women's History - Tweens
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Women's History - Tweens
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"Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister is a debut middle grade graphic novel about body image, confidence, and the everlasting bond of sisterhood. Lucy's always looked up to her big sister, Olivia, even though the two are polar opposites. But then, Lucy notices Olivia start to change. She doesn't want to play with Lucy anymore, she's unhappy with the way she looks, and she's refusing to eat her dinner. Finally, Lucy discovers that her sister is not...
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