Believarexic
Candlewick Press · Hardcover · Forthcoming
Asking for help is only the first step.
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- Who it’s for
- Dark humor and shifting forms hold the pain and uncertainty of recovery alongside hard-won self-trust.
- Genres
- Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens, Mental Illness for Teens, Finding Your Footing
- Published
- Candlewick Press, Forthcoming
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Asking for help is only the first step. Jennifer can’t go on like this—binging, purging, starving, and 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, her journey is only beginning. As Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationship with food, and friends, and family—and how each is healthy or unhealthy.
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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 based on her own experience when she was hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. The innovative format using blank verse and prose, changes in tense and voice, and forms, workbooks, and journal entries mirror Jennifer’s progress toward a healthy body and mind.
Recovery, In Form
Dark humor and shifting forms hold the pain and uncertainty of recovery alongside hard-won self-trust.
Come here for
- Dark humor alongside the emotional weight of eating-disorder treatment
- Blank verse, prose, and journal entries that mirror a changing sense of self
Expect
- A personal story based on the author's teenage hospitalization
- Attention to how food, friends, and family can shape recovery
Where it sits
| Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens | 97% |
|---|---|
| Mental Illness for Teens | 78% |
| Finding Your Footing | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA Stories About Girls & Women
- Eating Disorders & Body Image for Teens
- Finding Your Footing
- Authors
- J. J. Johnson
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- Forthcoming
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- YA Stories About Girls & Women