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1) Skinny
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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 art of fitting in, and he has a newly acquired secret: he can't recognize...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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A series of tragedies, including the death of her baby brother, her parent's divorce, her mother's nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of thirteen, leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically, but she miraculously finds the strength to give herself one more chance at life and love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
7) Looks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
13) Flabby tabby
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Description
After Tabby gets stuck in the cat-door, she soon finds herself competing with a fitter feline for food, basket space, and cuddles, and decides that a secret Feline Fitness Program is in order to reclaim her place on Polly's lap.
14) Heft
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Description
Arthur Opp weights 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school, and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career - if he can untangle himself from his difficult family life. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel's mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur's. After nearly two decades of silence,...
15) Chumpkin
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
The children are arriving at the farm for a day of pumpkin picking. All of the excited pumpkins stand straight and tall, except for Chumpkin, the roundest one of all. Will anyone choose Chumpkin?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
17) Fake
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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...
19) Butter
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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.
20) The Gulps
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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.