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Girls Under Pressure (Girls, #2)
Girls Under Pressure: Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie, well, Ellie is just plain normal. The three girls have been best friends 'forever' but now Ellie is convinced she's fat; Nadine wants to be a model; and Magda worries that her appearance is giving guys the wrong idea... They all long to change their looks and they're all under pressure!
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Holding Up the Universe
Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven. No one takes the time to look past Libby Strout's weight to get to know who she really is. Jack Masselin's got swagger, but he can't recognize faces. So he tries to never get too close to anyone. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game that which lands them in group counseling and community service, they make a connection.
Huge: 16-year-olds Wilhelmina and April meet at Wellness Springs, an up-market fat camp in California. Assigned to be room mates and work-out partners, the girls hate each other from the start Abc Family, Books Young Adult, Fiction Books, Book Lists, Young Adult, Books
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Huge: 16-year-olds Wilhelmina and April meet at Wellness Springs, an up-market fat camp in California. Assigned to be room mates and work-out partners, the girls hate each other from the start
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This Way Up
This Way Up: Cory is an overweight, shy young high-school student, who spends all his spare time playing CounterStrike on the computer. Horrified by his mother's ultimatum - join a sports team or lose his broadband access - Cory joins the orienteering club in the hopes that he won't be challenged too much.
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Plus
Plus: Beatrice Wilson just got dumped by her very first boyfriend and put on twenty-five pounds. Suddenly discovered as a plus model, she must now vanquish skinny rivals, fend off sleazy photographerss, and banish jealous frenemies in her rise to superstardom.
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Losing It
Losing It: Johanna suffers from anorexia, and is being bribed, encouraged and cajoled into eating enough to return to a normal weight. This story tells of her journey towards health and independence through the power of friendship.
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Dreamrider
Dreamrider: Michael is the fat kid, and he knows that even if he keeps his head down, he will be ridiculed and laughed at. But Michael has a powerful secret that will allow him to change the game and, with a new friend, can finally get his revenge. But will revenge have a price?
Skinny: Fifteen-year-old Ever constantly struggles with the Skinny voice in her head that reminds her that she is fat. With the support of her best friend, Ever begins the uphill battle toward change. But demons, she finds, are not so easy to shake, not even as she sheds pounds. Because Skinny is still around. Bypass Surgery, Gastric Bypass, Books Young Adult, Teaching Tools, Young Adult, Book Worth Reading, New Books, Audio Books, Book Club Books
Skinny
Skinny: Fifteen-year-old Ever constantly struggles with the Skinny voice in her head that reminds her that she is fat. With the support of her best friend, Ever begins the uphill battle toward change. But demons, she finds, are not so easy to shake, not even as she sheds pounds. Because Skinny is still around.
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Jemima Small Versus the Universe by Tamsin Winter. Jemima Small is funny and smart. She knows a lot of things. What she doesn't know is how that can be true and yet she can still sometimes feel like nothing... Or how being made to join the school's "special" healthy lifestyle group - aka Fat Club - could feel any less special.
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What I Lost
What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard. What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and her peace of mind. As a result, she's finally a size zero. She's also the newest resident at Wallingfield, a treatment center for girls like her - girls with eating disorders.
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Jersey Tomatoes are the Best
Jersey Tomatoes are the Best: Both Henry and Eva are New Jersey natives and excellent athletes and opportunities for each soon arrive. Henry sees freedom from her overbearing father and a chance to build her talents on the court, while Eva sees the chance to be the best as well as even more pressure to be graceful, lighter, more perfect on the dancefloor. Soon, Eva's obsession with physical perfection leads her down the path to anorexia.
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thinandbeautiful.com
thinandbeautiful.com: Seventeen-year-old Maddy has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across an online community of like-minded people, she realizes she is no longer alone. Now in a rehab facility where they are trying to "fix" a problem she doesn't think she has, Maddy's diary entries trace how she arrived at this point. Angry that she is barred from accessing her online friend
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Artichoke's Heart
Artichoke's Heart: Rosemary is smart, funny, loyal and the best eyebrow waxer in Spring Hill, Tennessee. But when your mom runs the most successful beauty shop in town, it can be hard to keep a low profile as a heavy girl. Rosemary resolves to lose the weight, but her journey turns out to be about everything but the scale. Her life-changing, waist-shrinking year is captured with brutal honesty and humor, topped with an extralarge helping of Southern charm.
Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies: Celeste used to be comfortable with her weight, until her Aunt Doreen secretly entered her in the Miss Husky Peach pageant for plus-sized girls. Since she doesn't want to enter, and doesn't want to upset her Aunty, losing weight may be the only escape. Cake Quotes, Never Been Kissed, Eat Cookies, Sing To Me, Reading Levels, Potato Chips, Chocolate Cookies, Mean Girls, Book Review
Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies
Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies: Celeste used to be comfortable with her weight, until her Aunt Doreen secretly entered her in the Miss Husky Peach pageant for plus-sized girls. Since she doesn't want to enter, and doesn't want to upset her Aunty, losing weight may be the only escape.
Fat Kid Rules the World: Troy Billings, six-foot-one and fat, stands at the edge of a subway platform, seriously contemplating suicide, until he meets Curt MacCrae - an emaciated, semi-homeless high school dropout punk, who recruits Troy to play drums in his band. Troy never having played drums before appears to be no problem. American Library Association, New York Subway, Library Catalog, Writing Short Stories, Free Pdf Books, Junior High, First Novel, Book Awards, Her. Book
Fat Kid Rules the World
Fat Kid Rules the World: Troy Billings, six-foot-one and fat, stands at the edge of a subway platform, seriously contemplating suicide, until he meets Curt MacCrae - an emaciated, semi-homeless high school dropout punk, who recruits Troy to play drums in his band. Troy never having played drums before appears to be no problem.