| Description |
1 online resource (466 pages) |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
Asking for help is only the first step Jennifer can’t go on like this—binging, purging, starving, all while trying to appear like she’s got it all together. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning. As Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationships with food, friends, and family—and how each relationship is healthy or unhealthy. She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but that’s easier than it sounds. She has to believe—after many years of being a believarexic. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. J. Johnson tells an inspiring story that is based on her own experience of being hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. The innovative format—which tells Jennifer’s story through blank verse and prose, with changes in tense and voice, and uses forms, workbooks, and journal entries—mirrors the protagonist’s progress toward a healthy body and mind. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Depression & Mental Illness.
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Family problems -- Fiction.
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Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
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Bulimia -- Fiction.
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Anorexia nervosa -- Fiction.
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Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, J. J., 1973- Believarexic / Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers, 2015. (DLC)2015002404 |
| ISBN |
9781504026802 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9781504026802 |
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