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Jeff Ebner
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John Schu
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John Schu
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“Every so often a book comes along that is so brave and necessary, it extends a lifeline when it’s needed most. This is one of those books.”—Katherine Applegate, author of the Newbery Medal-winning, The One and Only Ivan
Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as an act of survival—in a wrenching and transformative novel-in-verse.
But another voice inside me says,
We need help.
We’re going to die.
Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears? A fictionalized account of the author’s experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder, Louder than Hunger is a triumph of raw honesty. With a deeply personal afterword for context, this much-anticipated verse novel is a powerful model for muffling the destructive voices inside, managing and articulating pain, and embracing self-acceptance, support, and love.
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- Unabridged
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Sharkita “Kita” Hayes is always waiting. Waiting for her mama to mess up. Waiting for social services to be called again. Waiting for her and her siblings to be separated. Waiting for her worst fear to come true. But Mama promises things are different now. She’s got a good job, she’s stopped drinking, stopped going out every night—it’s almost enough to make Kita believe her this time. But even as Kita’s life is going good, she can’t shake the feeling that everything could go up in flames at any moment.
By: Sherri Winston
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And Then, Boom!
- By: Lisa Fipps
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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A gripping new novel in verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish, featuring a poverty-stricken boy who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
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Great read
- By Kelly Alexander on 12-16-24
By: Lisa Fipps
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Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .
- A LOVE Story
- By: Jason Reynolds
- Narrated by: Guy Lockard
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have loved to forget if it weren’t for the dog’s owner: Aria. Dressed in sweats, a t-shirt, hair in a ponytail. Aria. Way more than fine. Twenty-four weeks ago: Neon’s dad insists on talking to him about tenderness and intimacy. Neon and Aria are definitely in love, and while they haven’t taken that next big step…yet, they’ve starting talking about…that.
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Just good stuff!
- By Anonymous User on 06-03-25
By: Jason Reynolds
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Chronically Dolores
- By: Maya Van Wagenen
- Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal, Maya Van Wagenen
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis. The painful disease isn’t life-threatening, but it is threatening to ruin her life. Just when things seem hopeless, Dolores meets someone poised to change her fate. Terpsichore Berkenbosch-Jones is glamorous, autistic, and homeschooled against her will by her overprotective mother. After a rocky start, the girls form a tentative partnership
By: Maya Van Wagenen
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Popcorn
- By: Rob Harrell
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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Andrew’s just trying to make it through Picture Day, which is easier said than done when it seems like the whole world is out to get him—from a bully to a science experiment gone wrong to a someone else’s juice snot (don’t ask). But as Andrew goes through the school day, and as one thing after another goes wrong, that little kernel of worry in his stomach is getting hotter and hotter, until it threatens to pop and turn into a public panic attack, his worst fear. He tries to keep his anxiety at bay, but the news that his grandmother with Alzheimer’s is missing is too much.
By: Rob Harrell
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Lasagna Means I Love You
- By: Kate O'Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Annie Q
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Nan was all the family Mo ever needed. But suddenly she’s gone, and Mo finds herself in foster care after her uncle decides she’s not worth sticking around for. Nan left her a notebook and advised her to get a hobby, like ferret racing or palm reading. But how could a hobby fix anything in her newly topsy-turvy life? Then Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else’s family recipes. Even though Nan never cooked, Mo can’t tear her eyes away. Not so much from the recipes, but the stories attached to them.
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I love lasagna!
- By Tonja on 03-14-23
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Light Enough to Float
- By: Lauren Seal
- Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Evie has just barely acknowledged that she has an eating disorder when she’s admitted to an inpatient treatment facility. 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 listener and offer hope and understanding to those who need it most.
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You’ve read this before
- By Pink Amy on 10-09-24
By: Lauren Seal
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A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits)
- The Misfits, Book 1
- By: Lisa Yee
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Olive Cobin Zang has . . . issues. And they mostly aren’t her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she’s suddenly dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever: a former castle turned prison that's now a “reforming arts school”!
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Misfits
- By Amazon Customer on 06-27-25
By: Lisa Yee
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The Mona Lisa Vanishes
- A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
- By: Nicholas Day
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the Director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?
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Fascinating true thriller!
- By Katrina on 11-26-23
By: Nicholas Day
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Mexikid
- (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
- By: Pedro Martín
- Narrated by: Oscar Emmanuel Fabela, Omar Leyva, Cynthia Farrell, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Pedro Martin has grown up hearing stories about his abuelito—his legendary crime-fighting, grandfather who was once a part of the Mexican Revolution! But that doesn't mean Pedro is excited at the news that Abuelito is coming to live with their family. After all, Pedro has 8 brothers and sisters and the house is crowded enough! Still, Pedro piles into the Winnebago with his family for a road trip to Mexico to bring Abuelito home, and what follows is the trip of a lifetime, one filled with laughs and heartache.
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Relatable
- By carlos on 05-08-24
By: Pedro Martín
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Not Quite a Ghost
- By: Anne Ursu
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn’t fit among them. For Violet Hart—whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street—very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet’s group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn’t enough for Violet’s best friend, Paige. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay.
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the reality in the fiction
- By Kindle Customer on 05-19-25
By: Anne Ursu
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Rivals
- By: Tommy Greenwald
- Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs, Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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From the author of the award-winning Game Changer comes a new novel about two student-athletes searching for stardom, a young reporter searching for the truth, and a crosstown basketball rivalry that goes too far.
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Good job
- By Angie Graddy on 09-28-23
By: Tommy Greenwald
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Eb & Flow
- By: Kelly J. Baptist
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Ebony and De’Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De'Kari's ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to think about and explain their behavior—to their families, to each other, and ultimately to themselves. Single-parent homes, tight funds, and sibling dynamics provide a balancing act for the growing tweens. And whether they realize it or not, these two have a lot more in common than they think.
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Compelling
- By a reader on 07-07-24
By: Kelly J. Baptist
I am so grateful for reading this book!
Must read !
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Beautiful & heart-wrenching
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A raw and powerful story of how a young man overcame disordered eating.
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Powerful and worthy story!
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John Schu, Thank You
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