The aim of the paper is to explore the availability of fiction for young people on the topic of eating disorders in Zadar County public libraries and the possibility of informing young people about eating disorders by reading fiction. The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the recognition of the role of fiction in informing students about specific and complex topics. The research plan consists of two phases. In the first phase of the research, the results of the availability of fiction on the topic of eating disorders in CROLIST and ZAKI catalogues were collected. In the collective catalogue of libraries of Zadar County CROLIST and the system of the fund of national and school libraries of the ZAKI catalogue, the analysis was conducted by searching according to certain key words and the set list of books for children and young people, defined by the Croatian Library Society's Committee for Library services for children and young people. In the second phase of the research, the method of semi-structured interviews was used among students of the seventh and eighth grades of the primary school Braća Ribar Posedarje in Zadar County. The survey was conducted during March 2023. The interview is based on selected fragments of the problem novel by Jasminka Tihi-Stepanic, entitled My enemy Anna. Keyword search related to the topic of eating disorders in the CROLIST catalog yields no results, and one result was found in the ZAKI catalog. Information on eating disorders is found by interviewed adolescents through five of the following sources: the Internet, films and series, social media, books and schools. Respondents select the internet for the most common and films and series for the least used source of information on eating disorders. All students positively experience the pieces of the selected work and express their motivation and interest in reading literature on a similar subject. With the signed consent of the parents of the respondents, the research was conducted in the elementary school library.