Title:
Ava / Carol Holliday & Jo Browning Wroe ; illustrated by Bubs Renker.
ISBN:
9781909301634
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Speechmark Publishing Ltd, 2016.
Physical Description:
39 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Sixteen year-olds Ava and Jade are obsessed with food, calories, and staying thin. Pleased with the many compliments they receive they push themselves into anorexia. Ava's mother is alarmed by her daughter's weight loss and forces her into therapy with the school counsellor, Steph. However after only two sessions Steph touches a raw nerve, Ava storms out and refuses to continue. Only when Jade is admitted to hospital does Ava return to therapy, where she begins to understand the causes of her anorexic tendencies.
Audience:
For ages 14 and up.
Series Title:
Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
ocn970397052
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
