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Louder Than Hunger

Louder Than Hunger

Schu, John

Paperback

General Juvenile FictionPoetry

Publisher Price: $10.99

ISBN10: 1536232521
ISBN13: 9781536232523
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Feb 19 2025
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Awards: Schneider Family Book Award
A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book

This heart-wrenching verse novel--inspired by the author's 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 books--the weird one, the outsider--and 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 author's 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.

Louder Than Hunger is a Colorado Blue Spruce YA Book Award Winner!

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