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Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Ruby, a woman who weighs over 400 pounds, and her struggle to shed the extra weight that is killing her. Features a team of experts consisting of a trainer, nutritionist, therapist, and physician who are willing do whatever it
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
6) Fugly
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Defined as nothing but fat in the real world, Beth Soames specializes in trolling beautiful girls online until two new friendships, one online and one offline, make her question her behavior.
9) Andy
Author
Series
Ellie's people volume 6
Publisher
Herald Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
An overweight, short-tempered Amish teenager learns to control his eating habits and his anger after running away to live as a hobo.
11) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Cookie Vonn's post graduation dreams include getting out of Phoenix, attending Parsons and becoming the next great fashion designer. But in the world of fashion, being fat is a cardinal sin. It doesn't help that she's constantly compared to her supermodel mother and named after a dessert. Thanks to her job at a fashion blog, Cookie scores a trip to New York to pitch her portfolio and appeal for a scholarship but her plans are put...
13) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
14) Nutty professor
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kat Sanchez uses photos of a friend to create a fake Instagram account, but when one of her posts goes viral and exposes Kat's duplicity, her entire world--both real and pretend--comes crashing down around her.
18) Losing it
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Bennett Robinson loves baseball, especially watching Dodgers games with his dad while munching on burgers and fries. Baseball even helped Bennett and his dad cope with his mom's death from cancer. But on one perfect, baseball-watching day when Bennett's overweight dad is taken away on a stretcher, Bennett has to move in with know-it-all Aunt Laura. She's making it her personal mission to Get Bennett Healthy--and take over his life.
19) Pumpkin
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon so that he can live his Julie-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-Andrews truth.
So when Clementine deviates from their master plan right after Waylon gets dumped, he throws caution to the wind and creates an audition...
20) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
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