Bibliograph

Believarexic

Type

Label

Believarexic

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

HL550L, LexileDecoding demand: 98 (very high), Semantic demand: 100 (very high), Syntactic demand: 79 (high), Structure demand: 86 (very high), Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Believarexic

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 4.1, 12, 177232.

Summary

Asking for help is only the first step Jennifer can't go on like this-binging, purging, starving, 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 at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning. As Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationships with food, friends, and family-and how each relationship is healthy or unhealthy. 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 that is based on her own experience of being hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. The innovative format-which tells Jennifer's story through blank verse and prose, with changes in tense and voice, and uses forms, workbooks, and journal entries-mirrors the protagonist's progress toward a healthy body and mind

Target audience

adolescent

Classification