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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nYear of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n A summary from Goodreads: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia\u2014and self-expression as an act of survival\u2014in a wrenching and transformative novel-in-verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But another voice inside me says, 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\u2014the weird one, the outsider\u2014and would do anything not<\/em> 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<\/em> disappears? A fictionalized account of the author\u2019s experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder, Louder than Hunger<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goshen Public Library call number: <\/strong>YF SCHU (BOOK-YA) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By John Schu Year of Publication:\u00a02024 A summary from Goodreads: Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia\u2014and self-expression as an act of survival\u2014in a wrenching and transformative novel-in-verse. But another voice inside me says,We need help.We\u2019re going to die. Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We need help.
We\u2019re going to die.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n