Books like Being Sixteen

This novel is about a sixteen-year old girl, Juliet, who thinks her entire life will be perfect after her sixteenth birthday, but complications arrive when first, her almost boyfriend decides to date her friend instead, and second, when her younger sister Carly is discovered to be suffering from bulimia. The entire family is affected by Carly's eating disorder, and it is only through her family's love, her trust in the Atonement, and the helpfulness of an eating disorder clinic that Carly is able to recover and live a relatively normal life. I appreciated this novel because it shows how an eating disorder can affect the family members of the victim, how an eating disorder is even somewhat selfish. I don't know that this book would be too helpful to individuals suffering from an eating disorder, though, because they would not want to consider themselves as being in a similar supportive situation as Carly is in. It's an interesting enough read, though, and I would recommend it to any LDS teenage girl who may be affected by an eating disorder or who likes to read about the dramas of teenage life. It is not an exciting read by any means, but I appreciated it for its lack of darkness and emphasis on hope.