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The Year I Didn't Eat

ISBN-10: 1499814321
ISBN-13: 9781499814323
Author: Pollen, Samuel
Interest Level: 4-9
Publisher: Little Bee Books

Publication Date: September 2023

Copyright: 0

Page Count: 344

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Interest Level

Grades 4-9

Reading Level

Accelerated Reader Level: 4.5
Accelerated Reader Points: 10.0

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Marriage & Divorce *

Description
Fourteen-year-old Max doesn't like to eat, and the only one he can confess his true feelings to is Ana---also known as his eating disorder, anorexia. In a journal that his therapist makes him keep, he tells Ana his unfiltered thoughts and fears while also keeping track of his food intake. But Ana's presence has leapt off the page and into his head, as she feeds upon all of his fears and amplifies them. When Max's older brother Robin gives him a geocache box, it becomes a safe place where Max stores his journal, but someone finds it and starts writing to him, signing it with "E." Is it a joke? Could it be the new girl at school, Evie, who has taken an interest in Max? Although Max is unsure of the secret writer's identity, he takes comfort in the words that appear in his journal as they continually confide in one another about their problems. As Max's eating disorder intensifies, his family unit fractures. His parents and brother are stressed and strained as they attempt to deal with the elephant in the room. When Robin leaves home, Ma
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