Fiction about Body Image and Issues

    1. The Adonis Complex - Harrison Pope
    2. Balancing Act - S. Brinkerhoff
    3. The Best Little Girl in the World - Steven Levenkron
    4. Born Too Short : the Confessions of an Eighth-Grade Basket Case - D. Elish
    5. Boys Over Flowers - Yoko Kamio  
    6. Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You - Dorian Cirrone
    7. Deenie - Judy Blume
    8. Diary of an Anorexic Girl - Morgan Menzie
    9. Does My Head Look Big in This - Randa Abdel-Fattah 
    10. Dough Boy - Peter Marino
    11. The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things- Carolyn Mackler
    12. Extreme Elvin - Chris Lynch
    13. Face - B. Zephaniah
    14. Faded Denim - Melody Carlson 
    15. Fat Camp - Deborah Blumenthal
    16. Fat Camp - Stephen Manes
    17. Fat Chance - Leslea Newman
    18. Fix - Leslie Margolis (plastic surgery)
    19. Flavor of the Week by Tucker Shaw 
    20. Funny Little Money - Andrew Auseon (short boy)
    21. Girls under Pressure - Jacqueline Wilson
    22. The Grooming of Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
    23. The Hanged Man - Francesca Lia Block
    24. How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
    25. How I Changed My Life - T. Strasser
    26. Hunger Scream - I. Ruckman
    27. I am an Artichoke - Lucy K. Frank
    28. Just Listen - Sarah Dessen
    29. Keeping the Moon - Sarah Dessen
    30. Kim : Empty Inside - B. Sparks
    31. Kissing the Rain - Kevin Brooks
    32. Leaving Jetty Road - Rebecca Burton
    33. Life in the Fat Lane - Cherie Bennett
    34. The Melting of Maggie Bean - Tricia Rayburn
    35. Mercy, Unbound by Kim Antieau  (anorexia)
    36. My Cup Runneth Over - Cherry Whytock
    37. My Sister's Bones - C. Hanauer
    38. Nell's Quilt by Susan Terris (anorexia)
    39. One Fat Summer - Robert Lipsyte
    40. The Parallel Universe of Liars - Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
    41. Perfect - Natasha Friend
    42. Perk!  The Story of a Teenager with Bulimia - L. Hall
    43. The Planet of Junior Brown - Virginia Hamilton
    44. Pretties; Uglies; Specials by Scott Westerfeld
    45. Skin - Adrienne Maria Vrettos
    46. Skinny (2006) -  Ibi Kaslik
    47. Staying Fat for Sarah Burns - Chris Crutcher
    48. Stick Figure - Lori Gottlieb
    49. Storky - D.L. Garfinkle
    50. Thin - Lauren Greenfield (based on the excellent HBO documentary)
    51. Unexpected Development - Marlene Perez
    52. Vanishing - Bruce Brooks
    53. Wasted - Maya Hornbacher

     

     

     

     

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