title: Ravenous: The Stirring Tale of Teen Love, Loss and Courage
author:  Eve Eliot 
description: Grade 8 Up-This sequel to Insatiable (Health Communications, 2001) continues the interconnected stories about members of an eating-disorder group led by therapist Gale Holland. The members are older now and dealing with issues of college and sexuality in addition to their serious food addictions. Ravenous also gets inside Gale's head as she attempts to teach the group methods to cope. Phoebe is still dealing with her father's scorn because she is overweight, and still overwhelmed by love for Daryl, who is involved with someone else. Anorexic Samantha has lost one boyfriend because of her food-control issues, but she is extremely resistant to recovering. And Hannah seems to carry the biggest burden, not only because she is bulimic, but also because she is a lesbian. She is also coming to terms with her mother's death from anorexia and breast cancer. Several other characters are added to the group, including two men and an older woman who is a heavy smoker and suffering from long-term anorexia. The writing here is smoother than in Insatiable but the use of words in capitals on almost every other page to add emphasis is irritating. Purchase if the first book was popular; otherwise rely on older classics on the topic, such as Steven Levenkron's Best Little Girl in the World (Turtleback, 1979) and Susan Terris's Nell's Quilt (Sunburst, 1996).<br /><i>Susan Riley, Mount Kisco Public Library, NY</i><br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
  Patrick Ness
  
  ‘Souls have complexions, too: what will suit one will not suit another.’
  GEORGE ELIOT Middlemarch
  
  For Marc Nowell
  And in memory of my remarkable great aunt,
  Ingeborg Utheim
  1915–1999
  
  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Prologue. In.
  Part I. Welcome to Hennington.
  1. The Solari.
  2. A Confluence of Nudity.
  3. The Crash on the Hill.
  4. Luther in Limbo.
  5. Maggerty.
  6. The Mayor’s Office and its Discontents.
  7. Father and Daughter.
  8. Mathematica.
  9. Hospitality.
  10. The Crash at the Bridge.
  11. Orthopediae.
  12. The Melting Sanctuary.
  13. Maggerty Eats.
  14. Peter on the Move.
  15. An Offer.
  16. Why Archie Banyon Feels the Way He Does About Women.
  17. ‘The Tale of Rufus and Rhonda'.
  18. Mingle, Mingle.
  19. Duty Calling.
  20. In the Hours Before Morning.
  21. The Crash Before Dawn.
  Part II. There Are No Ends, Only Changes.
  22. Marmalade Leviathan.
  23. Comfort for the Uncomfortable.
  24. Closing the Deal.
  25. Maggerty in the City.
  26. What Do You Want?
  
  27. ‘Cleave’ 