Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.

After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.

After she discovered the affair and divorced her husband, Dana Sue Sullivan decided to create the best restaurant in Serenity, South Carolina. Years of hard labor has made her dream a reality, providing Southern comfort food and a haven for the whole town. But when her teenage daughter Annie's eating disorder lands her in the hospital and her own health starts to deteriorate, Dana Sue is forced to change her life again, even if it means letting her...

Constantly in the spotlight thanks to her politician father's rising star, Olivia Blakely feels the pressure to be perfect. As the youngest girl in her class, she tries hard to keep up and to seem mature to the older boy she's crushing on, even as she catches his eye. But the need to look good on camera and at school soon grows into an all-consuming struggle with bulimia.

Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.

"Chase Arthur is a hopeless romantic, but he's also struggling to figure out his gender identity and recover from an eating disorder. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away from home and missing his sister, finding his squad, and will have to learn to love--and be enough for--himself, while discovering what it means to truly live"--

Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.

Sam Kinny has always stuck to a diet of only white foods, but when his friend Kevin's strange Aunt Sylvie puts a weird spice on his macaroni and cheese he finds himself gobbling up everything from paste to dog food and has to do something before his body explodes.

Twelve-year old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner, and she really does not understand why she told Benny, her crush, about her mother--but when Benny offers to teach...

Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she'll never soar again--until the day young Dell Jordan is sent to her office, carrying an essay. In Dell's writing, Julia sees luminous sparks of hope. But as she fights to forge...