Food Fight: A Guide to Eating Disorders for Pre-Teens and Their Parents - Hardcover

Bode, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689802722 ISBN 13: 9780689802720

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

A complete resource for preteens and their parents candidly discusses the symptoms and possible causes of anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, and other eating disorders and includes interviews with children who suffer from them.

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Review

"Publishers Weekly" Examining in depth how eating disorders begin...this extensively researched, clearly written book conveys an urgent desire to comprehend and help solve the problem.

About the Author

Janet Bode is the author of more than a dozen books for teenagers and adults. Many of her books have been selected as ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age. A frequent speaker in schools, libraries, conferences, and on radio and television, she lives in New York City. Of Food Fight she says:

"When an editor asked me to write a book for eight- to twelve-year-olds about eating disorders, I first said, 'Eating disorders don't touch the lives of kids that young.' But then I started thinking, what if I'm wrong? How could I pass up the chance to help people deal with a problem before it becomes a life-and-death issue?

"I called and e-mailed counselors, librarians, and doctors around the country. Their collective opinion? Such a book was needed. Then, as always, I turned to my real experts: adolescents themselves. In a room filled with seventh graders, students began to talk about their concerns with coming of age in a troubling time and their insecurity about the shape of their bodies. One girl said it all: 'The pain feels like a thousand paper cuts. Write the book.' So I did."

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689802722
• ISBN 13: 9780689802720
• Binding: Hardcover