Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food, and its Power by Eve Eliot

Samantha, Hannah, Jessica, and Phoebe all have problems with food and eating. The stories are written as fiction, but the girls' situations are all too real? Why is it that the main characters are all girls? Don't guys have problems with eating disorders, too?
I found a link online to an interview of the author, Eve Eliot, that might add some background to a discussion of the book.

The Gunslinger from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

Stephen King is a terrific story teller even when the book isn't exactly his usual horror genre. This, the first in the series, has elements of medieval coming-of-age stories, The Western, and fantasy quests. There will be plenty of violence and strangeness in Roland of Gilead's world, a world that has elements of ours, but a world that has "moved on." What other Stephen King titles have you read? Am I right that this series is different?

American Born Chinese

Reading this graphic novel is easy. What makes it a good book for discussion are the issues it presents in the three intertwining stories. Jin Wang finds that he is the only Chinese-American at his new school and all he wants to do is fit in. The Monkey King, ruler of all monkeys and kung-fu master, wants to be a god. This is a retelling of an old Chinese fable. In the third aspect of the novel, Danny's life is being ruined by his cousin Chin-Kee, the ultimate negative American stereotype of the Chinese. Why do you think this modern fable earned the
prestigious Printz Award for Young Adult literature?