More Than a Number by Tia Souders

For seventeen-year-old Grace Michaels, “average” is the worst word she can hear.

Part of the in-crowd at Providence High, she is steps away from being asked out by the most desired guy at school, winning a prom queen nomination, and her parents’ approval. If she can just get skinny enough, be pretty enough, and popular enough.

All she has to do is eat less than the week before. Lose just one more pound. But soon, she finds herself in a deadly game of self-acceptance. Is love enough to pull her back from the edge?

Fans of emotional contemporary YA will fall in love with Souders’ heart-wrenching novel. Like Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why and Lauren Oliver’s Before I Fall, More Than a Number raises thought-provoking questions about love and acceptance, as well as the cost of beauty.

*Previously titled Something of Substance*