Light Enough to Float by Lauren Seal

Light Enough to Float

Lauren Seal

Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · October 8, 2024

A Young Adult pick for readers exploring Light Enough to Float.

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Genres
Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens, Novels in Verse for Teens, Mental Illness for Teens
Published
Penguin Young Readers Group, October 8, 2024

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About this book

Deeply moving and authentic, this debut novel in verse—winner of a Schneider Family Book Award Honor—follows teenage Evie through her eating disorder treatment and recovery―a perfect choice for readers of Wintergirls and Louder Than Hunger. Evie has just barely acknowledged that she has an eating disorder when she’s admitted to an inpatient treatment facility.

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Now her days are filled with calorie loading, therapy sessions, and longing—for home, for control, and for the time before her troubles began. As the winter of her treatment goes on, she gradually begins to face her fears and to love herself again, with the help of caregivers and of peers who are fighting their own disordered-eating battles. This insightful, beautiful novel will touch every reader and offer hope and understanding to those who need it most.

Why It Lands

Come here for

  • a YA read with emotional gravity
  • family and mental-health currents

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  • teen-focused illness-and-body-image territory
  • a story shaped by family and mental health

Where it sits

Novels in Verse for Teens88%
Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens85%
Mental Illness for Teens72%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Coming of Age
  • Novels in Verse for Teens
  • Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens
Authors
Lauren Seal
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
October 8, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Coming of Age