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Hungry Ghost
Hungry Ghost | Victoria Ying
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A young adult graphic novel about Valerie, a girl who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family and is forced to reevaluate her own self-image after her life is turned upside down.Sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, suspects that she has been binging and purging for years. But Valerie's life, and priorities, are upended when her father dies abruptly. At home, she abandons her ED patterns as she tries to comfort her mother and little brother.Val begins to reevaluate her life, her choices, and her own body. She realizes that the path to happiness might lead her away from her hometown and her mother's toxic projections. But first she must apologize to Jordan and find the strength to seek help.This beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family dynamics, and, ultimately, a journey to self-love.
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Meghan1
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Book 21 of 2024. This YA graphic novel was heartbreaking, as it dealt with bulimia and death of a parent. I wish it had been a little longer. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Lindy
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A moving fictional account of a Taiwanese American girl with disordered eating, told in comics format. The author‘s note at the end says she based this on her own experiences and that doesn‘t surprise me because it rings so true.

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Lindy
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Images can carry so much that isn‘t in the text. In this scene, it‘s clear that a football player is giving Jordan an appreciative look, but in the next panel we see Jordan‘s friend Valerie thinking Jordan is sadly delusional. That no football player would look twice at Jordan because she‘s fat. Valerie can‘t see what‘s right in front of her, including the fact that she herself has disordered eating.

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Lindy
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Remember, don‘t eat, just taste.
[Her mother‘s instructions are about not eating her own birthday cake.]

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charl08
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Val faces her own fears following her dad's death.

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charl08
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Aw, this made me a bit teary. The kindness of strangers. Someone made a similar gesture when I was in the last days of editing and thinking I'd never submit.

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Coueriamb
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Back on track with the Scarathon Photo challenge- and a new pal for Archibald my Skelefriend! Meet my new fave little ghostly ornament. Unnamed as of yet but SO super cute.

Not yet finished with the tagged book- but so far really good and touching.

#scarathon #scarathonphotochallenge #teamBOOklovers

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LibrarianRyan
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4 ⭐ I didn‘t read up on this book before I started it. I saw the girl with the skeleton chest and the flowers and thought this book was right up my alley. I had no idea going in that I would see portions of my own life. In this book we follow the main character Val as she comes to term with her disordered eating and how her family, particularly her mom affected this. Valerie is bulimic, she throws up almost everything she eats. ⬇

LibrarianRyan She has been doing it for years because her mother insists she‘s not thin enough and that she needs to watch what she eats and never become fat. Wow! Her best friend is on the larger side and Val‘s mom is constantly “she‘s so ugly, she‘s not pretty, why would anybody like the fat girl”. I was the fat girl, so this book really does speak to me. My parents were wonderful but my extended family not so much. I would constantly get told “you‘d be so 2y
LibrarianRyan pretty if you were thinner”. “You could be a model if you were thinner”. So, this book has left me with emotions. This book simplifies a very hard and complicated topic, but it makes it approachable for people who don‘t live with these types of things in their life. This book is well written, true to form and very heartfelt. The title is a misnomer, but at the same time you can see how Val is living as a ghost of who she should be. It‘s for those 2y
LibrarianRyan reasons that I give this an over astounding good read. There needs to be more books like this for kids and teens who live or have friends living in similar situations.

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charl08 Yes, I agree. More like this. 10mo
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