Light Enough to Float

Name: Light Enough to Float
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ISBN: 9780593700167

Lauren Seal

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Penguin Young Readers
10 March 2026

Drama & performing (Children's&YA)

Deeply moving and authentic, this debut novel in verse-winner of a Schneider Family Book Award Honor-follows teenage Evie through her eating disorder treatment and recovery―a perfect choice for readers of Louder Than Hunger and Wintergirls.

Deeply moving and authentic, this debut novel in verse-winner of a Schneider Family Book Award Honor-follows teenage Evie through her eating disorder treatment and recovery―a perfect choice for readers of Louder Than Hunger and Wintergirls.

Evie has just barely acknowledged that she has an eating disorder when she's admitted to an inpatient treatment facility. Now her days are filled with calorie loading, therapy sessions, and longing-for home, for control, and for the time before her troubles began. As the winter of her treatment goes on, she gradually begins to face her fears and to love herself again, with the help of caregivers and of peers who are fighting their own disordered-eating battles.

This insightful, beautiful novel will touch every reader and offer hope and understanding to those who need it most.

By: Lauren Seal
Imprint: Penguin Young Readers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780593700167
ISBN 10: 0593700163
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 10 March 2026
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lauren Seal is a writer, librarian, and the third Poet Laureate of St. Albert in Alberta, Canada. She mentors the teen and young adult poets of a spoken word youth choir and her poems have been published in various anthologies. This novel-in-verse, her first book, is inspired by her own experiences with anorexia, anxiety, and hospitalization. When she's not busy recommending books to library patrons, Lauren can be found reading, writing, and composing poems in her head on long dog walks.

Reviews for Light Enough to Float

Schneider Family Book Award Honor Winner ""Skillfully crafted . . . A realistically complex yet hopeful account of eating disorder treatment."" —Kirkus Review ""An emotionally complex novel that that will linger in readers' minds.""—Booklist ""The tone and tempo of this verse novel tracks with Evie’s journey toward healing. Spare, hyper focused, and compulsive at first, the cadence moving with a staccato franticness; as she comes to terms with her diagnosis and treatment, eventually a steadiness—fragile, to be sure—threads through the text. . . . A smart acknowledgment of the effect that social media has on disordered eating."" —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books