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A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book
This heart-wrenching verse novelinspired by the authors experiences . . . is an unflinching depiction of resistance and disordered eating recovery. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in booksthe weird one, the outsiderand would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears? A fictionalized account of the authors experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder, Louder Than Hunger is a triumph of raw honesty. With a deeply personal afterword for context, this verse novel is a powerful model for muffling the destructive voices inside, managing and articulating pain, and embracing self-acceptance, support, and love.
Author: John Schu
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 02/19/2025
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781536232523
Language: English
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