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English
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"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--
No one takes the time to look past Libby Strout's weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death she picks up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now she's ready for high school, for new friends, for love-- for everything life has to offer. Jack Masselin's got swagger, he's mastered the impossible...
3) Butter
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
5) Biggie
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Henry 'Biggie' Abbott has hidden behind his weight for years, and although he is the son and stepson of two of Finch, Minnesota's most famous athletes, he prefers academic success until the girl of his dreams suggests he join the baseball team, and, with his stepbrother's help, he discovers he is a great pitcher." --
6) Skinny
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.
8) Looks
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
9) The Gulps
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After their van and the killer whale water slide break down under the strain of their excessive weight, the Gulps decide to eat right and exercise.
10) Fake
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Maisie Fernandez has just about convinced herself that she does not care about her weight or her looks, or about only having one friend in Fort Collins High School (nerdy Owen Carpenter), but "Sienna", the internet profile she creates, is beautiful, skinny, and confident; the profile is part of her plan to humiliate the popular kids who bully and make fun of her, but suddenly the deception gets complicated--because the actual Sienna, the girl whose...
13) Empty
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.
14) The yoga ogre
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Ogden the Ogre was worried one night. 'My jim-jams have grown far too short and too tight! How has my tum got so terribly wide? I only eat 12 meals a day!' Ogden sighed. The people said, 'Jim-jams too tight and too short? Overweight ogres should take up a sport!' So Ogden does take up a sport - and he does it with gusto!"--
15) Piglettes
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age road trip story - winner of France's biggest prize for teen and YA fiction. Awarded the Gold, Silver and Bronze trotters after a vote by their classmates on Facebook, Mireille, Astrid and Hakima are officially the three ugliest girls in their school, but does that mean they're going to sit around crying about it? Well... yes, a bit, but not for long! Climbing aboard their bikes, the trio set off on...
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