A teenage girl saddles up to take on worldwide famine—and her own
anorexia—in a “fast-paced, witty, and heart-breaking” fantasy
adventure (Richelle Mead, #1 New York Times-bestselling author) Jackie
Morse Kessler’s Riders of the Apocalypse series follows teens who
are transformed into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In Hunger,
Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of scales, and a new job:
she’s been appointed Famine. How will an anorexic seventeen-year-old
girl from the suburbs fare as one of the Four Horsemen? Traveling the
world on her steed gives Lisa freedom from her troubles at home—her
constant battle with hunger, and her struggle to hide it from the
people who care about her. But being Famine forces her to go places
where hunger is a painful part of everyday life, and to face the
horrifying effects of her phenomenal power. Can Lisa find a way to
harness that power—and the courage to fight her own inner demons? A
wildly original approach to the issue of eating disorders, Hunger is
about the struggle to find balance in a world of extremes and uses
fantastic tropes to explore a difficult topic that touches the lives
of many teens. “A great book . . . funny and sad, brilliant and
tragic, and most of all, it speaks the truth. I adore it.”—Rachel
Caine, New York Times-bestselling author “It was sheer genius to
combine the eating disorder anorexia with the ultimate entity
signifying lack of food, nourishment and all that that entails:
famine.”—New York Journal of Books “The storytelling is both
realistic and compassionate.”—School Library Journal, (starred
review)
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780547505091
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
HMH Books for Young Readers / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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