She lives with her husband, son, and rescue dog in a small brick cottage in Durham, North Carolina. She teaches at a Montessori farm preschool and participates in literacy, social justice, and pro-democracy organizations. loves to travel, practice yoga, read, hike, dance, laugh, and eat. Her books have won numerous honors and have been translated into six languages. She is the author of THIS GIRL IS DIFFERENT, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, and BELIEVAREXIC (all from Peachtree Publishers). earned a Master of Education from Harvard University, concentrating on adolescent risk and prevention, with eyes toward mental health and social injustice. She graduated with a history degree in 1996. She then went to Binghamton University, where she discovered writing -and dancing, and marching, and sitting-in- for social justice. She grew up (with an 80s perm) in a very small town in central New York. Johnson is a youth counselor turned young adult novelist. The innovative formatwhich tells Jennifer's story through blank verse and prose, with changes in tense and voice, and uses forms, workbooks, and journal entriesmirrors the protagonist's progress toward a healthy body and mind.J.J. Johnson tells an inspiring story that is based on her own experience of being hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J.
She has to believeafter many years of being a believarexic. She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but that's easier than it sounds.
As Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationships with food, friends, and familyand how each relationship is healthy or unhealthy. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning.
Asking for help is only the first step Jennifer can't go on like thisbinging, purging, starving, all while trying to appear like she's got it all together.
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