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3) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2009.
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.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After unexpectedly falling in love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie has never liked the way she looks. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. Will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?
13) Andy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An overweight, short-tempered Amish teenager learns to control his eating habits and his anger after running away to live as a hobo.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Concerned about Harry's weight gain and lack of exercise, his pet hamster arranges for him to spend a month at a unique camp, where Harry is transformed into someone who understands that eating right and staying in shape can be fun.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss HuskeyPeach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.
17) Fat Cat
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Overweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Cyril, an overweight boy who is good friends with Rose but wishes he could be more, helps his best friend Nick woo her with culinary masterpieces which Cyril himself secretly creates. Includes recipes from the story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest Sun Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After spending the summer eating junk food and staying indoors, Matt the Rat discovers that he is out of shape when school begins again, but with the help of friends and family, Matt learns the value of a healthy diet and exercise.
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