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Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 9
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes, the shortest kid in class and still chosen last at recess, hones his basketball skills with Mr. Havens and earns the respect of his third-grade classmates.
84) You are enough
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This self-help guide for young readers delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image; tools and information for recovery; and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating, written in a easy-to-understand, conversational way.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Formats
Description
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2020
It's time to bare it all about bodies!
We all experience the world in a body, but we don't usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live within one. Just as every person has a unique personality, every person has a unique body, and every body tells its own story.
In Body Talk, thirty-seven writers, models, actors, musicians, and artists share essays, lists, comics,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not "at home" in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licensed therapist Hilary Kinavey and registered dietician Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a diet culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and fully reclaim and embrace their bodies"--
89) Pixel perfection
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Bridget and her friend Emma are surprised by the attention they receive at school after the launch of their e-zine, Cyber Hills Holler. So when a classmate starts up a competing site with edited photos of their classmates, they decide to fight back to retain their newfound popularity. Not everyone is happy with the results."--Back cover.
91) The good body
Author
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
Explores the anguish, obsessions, and vulnerabilities of women as they reflect on their bodies, from an aging magazine executive and her desperate pursuit of youth to a woman being surgically reconstructed by her plastic surgeon spouse.
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Formats
Description
"Based on her bestselling book 'Made to Crave,' but now distilled down for busy readers, Lysa TerKeurst offers a new perspective to all those stuck in the cycle of losing weight but then gaining it back, equipping readers with the deeper spiritual and emotional motivation they need to make lasting changes"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
What do you do when someone you care about is hurting, when their, behavior is making it worse? How can you help them if you are the youngest and no one is listening? This book tackles the tough topic of eating disorders and how a family has to work together to help the big sister get better. Eva loves her big sister very much. Anna is clever and smart, and fun. But one day, Eva notices that her sister is staring to behave differently and that she...
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
From reality television to tabloid headlines, we're all surrounded by weight and discussion of weight. In this collection, a stellar lineup of YA writers sound off on body image., self-esteem, diets, eating disorders, boys, fashion magazines, and why trying on jeans is a bad experience for everyone. There are eight powerful short stories and six moving personal essays from authors whose works include two New York Times bestsellers, a Los Angeles TImes...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing us softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes--images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty,...
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"This Is Me" features fictional narratives paired with firsthand advice from a licensed psychologist to help preteen and teen girls handle physical challenges. Topics include obesity, diabetes, nut allergies, lactose intolerance, asthma, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, and speech impediments.