Purge by Sarah Littman
Ages: Young Adult
Scholastic Press: April 2009
Cautions: Bulimia and other eating disorders are graphically depicted

Kiwi Magazine Review:
This authentic chapter book is a really important work. The author’s personal experience with bulimia comes through clearly and genuinely and serves as a very honest and painful ersatz journal of the life of a bulimic who must spend time rehabilitating at a facility for eating disorders. Though this book is fiction, it has no less impact than a memoir may have. The final chapter offers resources and information to those who may suspect an eating disorder.

Product Description
Janie Ryman hates throwing up. So why does she binge eat and then stick her fingers down her throat several times a day? That’s what the doctors and psychiatrists at Golden Slopes hope to help her discover. But first Janie must survive everyday conflicts between the Barfers and the Starvers, attempts by the head psychiatrist to fish painful memories out of her emotional waters, and shifting friendships and alliances among the kids in the ward.

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