Louder Than Hunger

Louder Than Hunger

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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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A raw, honest, and emotional novel in verse that ultimately feels like a triumph. Thank you, Mr. Schu!

March 5, 2024

Absolutely sobbing over this one. An important and emotional semi-autobiographical story that follows a 14yo boy struggling with disordered eating and depression. Unputdownable.

January 14, 2025

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