Social Issues: Eating Disorders / Weight Issues

TITLE & AUTHOR

Best Little Girl In The World*

LEVENKROM, S

A revealing novel of a young girl's battle with anorexia and her triumph over it.

Cat*

Cat's mother has always told her to hide her figure and she has lived her life shrouded in secrets. When she finally demands the truth, she finds her secrets are the most shocking and dark of all four girls.

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack

Dinky Hocker is fat, and refuses to be annoyed by either her boyfriend or her mother. Dinky Hocker does not shoot smack, she merely says so to get some attention.

Extreme Elvin*

Elvin struggles with his weight problem and tries to find his place among his peers.

Keeping The Moon

Sent to spend the summer with an eccentric aunt, Colie, an overweight girl, expects her life as an outsider to continue. A job and new friends help her to see herself in a new light, and to appreciate the qualities she has always had.

Life In The Fat Lane

16-year-old Lara, beautiful, thin, smart and popular, begins to gain weight due to a metabolic disorder. She learns first-hand what it means to be overweight in a society obsessed with appearances.

One Fat Summer

Bobby Marks, fat and miserable, takes a strenuous summer job, loses weight and gains respect.

Second To The Right*

Leslie Hiller, a bright, attractive and talented teenager, finds her quest for perfection may just kill her when she begins to diet and just can't seem to stop.

Vanishing*