HEARTSTOPPER

VOLUME 4
Book Summary:
Two young men in a romantic relationship
undergo challenges as one receives
treatment for mental illness and the other
tells his family about his homosexual
relationship.

Summary of Concerns:
This book contains alternate sexualities;
self-harm involving anorexia; alternate
gender ideologies; and mild/infrequent
profanity.

Young Adult Graphic Novel

By Alice Oseman
ISBN: 978-1-338-61758-0
Page Content
i The illustration on the top of the page depicts two young men kissing.
34 The illustrations on the uppermost portion of the page depict two young men kissing.
35 "Nick! Stop kissing your boyfriend and hurry up!"
40 The illustration on the top-right side of the page depicts a young man and a transgender
woman kissing.
75 The illustrations on this page depict two young men kissing while standing in the ocean.
76 The illustrations on this page depict the same two individuals described above kissing and
hugging.
78 "I think you have an eating disorder."
82 "Most people think eating disorders are…a girl thing."
116 The illustration on the bottom of the page depicts two young men kissing.
117 The illustration on the top of the page depicts two young men kissing.
131 "You're too young to be having sex."
159 "I think Charlie has an eating disorder. And I don't know what to do."
"An eating disorder…Are you sure?"
"Yeah, he- he just can't eat sometimes. A lot of the time."
160 "He finds eating really difficult and it makes him so anxious, and it's gotten really bad lately,
and I've been trying to get him to talk to his parents but he said he just CAN'T, he can't talk to
them about stuff like that, and-and- I just don't know what to do now. I don't want to force
him to eat because that would just make him upset and stressed, but…"
176 The illustration on the middle-right side of the page depicts two young women kissing.
178 The illustration on the middle of the page depicts a young man and a transgender woman
kissing.
181 The illustration on the middle of the page depicts two men kissing in a car.
191 "Okay, it still feels weird to kiss in public."
192 The illustration on the bottom-right side of the page depicts two young men kissing in an
empty classroom.
193 The illustrations on this page depict the same individuals described above kissing.
194 The illustration on this page depict the same individuals kissing in an empty classroom.
209 The illustration on the top of the page depicts two young men kissing.
212 The lower three illustrations depict two young men lying on a bed kissing.
228 My mental health has been really bad lately. I've been finding eating really difficult. I feel like
there's a voice in my head that's not me, telling me bad things will happen if I eat or if I do
things the wrong way, and that voice has just been getting louder and louder.
240 And you know he told me he used to self-harm?
Well, that kind of started again.
260 And he's been thinking differently about how to deal with his anorexia.
262 The illustration on the top of the page depicts two young men lying on a bed kissing.
278 The illustration on the bottom of the page depicts two young men kissing.
279 The illustration on the top of the page depicts two young men standing in a crowd kissing.
Page Content
280 The illustration on the top of the page depicts two young women kissing.

The illustration on the bottom of the page depicts a young man and a transgender woman
kissing with the transgender woman sitting across the young man's lap.
320 The illustration on the bottom of the page depicts two young men kissing.
329 "I'm bisexual, he's gay, I'm surprised you haven't worked it out from how much I talk about
him on the phone!"
350 The illustrations on this page depict two young men kissing in a car.

Profanity Count
Fuck 3
Shit 1