{"product_id":"louder-than-hunger-9781536232523","title":"Louder Than Hunger","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This heart-wrenching verse novel--inspired by the author's experiences . . . is an unflinching depiction of resistance and disordered eating recovery.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJake 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 \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003eto 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 \u003ci\u003etruly \u003c\/i\u003edisappears? A fictionalized account of the author's experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder, \u003ci\u003eLouder Than Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of raw honesty. With a deeply personal afterword for context, this verse novel is a powerful model for muffling the destructive voices inside, managing and articulating pain, and embracing self-acceptance, support, and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Schu\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the acclaimed picture books \u003ci\u003eThis Is a School, \u003c\/i\u003eillustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison, and \u003ci\u003eThis Is a Story\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo. He also wrote the adult study \u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Story: Exploring the Affective Side of the Reading Life\u003c\/i\u003e and was named a \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003eMover and Shaker for his dynamic interactions with students and his passionate adoption of new technologies as a means of connecting authors, illustrators, books, and readers. Children's librarian for Bookelicious, part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, and former Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs, Mr. Schu--as he is affectionately known--continues to travel the world to share his love of books. He lives in Naperville, Illinois. You can find him at www.JohnSchu.com and on social media @MrSchuReads.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186280300818,"sku":"9781536232523","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0bb3311-9692-45ee-bfbd-d812f7eaee77.jpg?v=1748603894","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/louder-than-hunger-9781536232523","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}