![]() for the many who have been personally affected by eating disorders, it can offer hope." -School Library Journal help readers feel as if they are on this journey with her. ![]() "The unique format and detailed portrayal. The innovative format using blank verse and prose, changes in tense and voice, and forms, workbooks, and journal entries mirror Jennifer's progress toward a healthy body and mind. Johnson tells an inspiring story based on her own experience when she was hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. She has to believe-after many years of being a believarexic. ![]() She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but that's easier than it sounds. ![]() But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning.Īs Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationship with food, and friends, and family-and how each is healthy or unhealthy. Jennifer can't go on like this-binging, purging, starving, and all while trying to appear like she's got it all together. A girl struggling with an eating disorder realizes that asking for help is only the first step. ![]()
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