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What do you get when you cross the Virgin Mary with Brooke Shields, add a trash-talking beauty queen wannabe and throw in a couple of talking nipples? One of the most laugh-out-loud books you'll read all year.
Peter Paddington is 13, overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When Peter's nipples begin speaking to him one day and inform him of their diabolical plan to expose his...
4) Payback time
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Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
5) Pumpkin
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Dumplin' volume 3
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Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.
Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. After graduation he plans to move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally live his truth. Throwing caution to the wind he creates...
8) Mammoth
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Paleontology geek and plus-size fashion blogger Natalie Page lands an internship working with a celebrated paleontologist, but she realizes that in order to stand out in a field dominated by men, she must first learn to stand up for herself.
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After her father's death, Gray Lachmann, finds herself compulsively overeating. Determined to take control again, she takes a job at a weight-loss camp. There she has to deal with devious co-counselors. combative teenage campers and the discovery of a teenage half-sister she never knew she had.
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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...
11) Fatboy fall down
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"A heartrending novel about one man's search for meaning in a difficult life. A child ridiculed for his weight, a son overshadowed by a favored brother, a husband who falls short of his wife's ambitions, an old man with a broken heart... As Orbits's life passes, he doggedly pursues a simple dream--a little place in the country where a family might thrive--while wondering if he can ever shake free of the tragedies that seem to define him. Fatboy Fall...
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Field party novels volume 4
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Told in separate voices, seventeen-year-old Tallulah Leddel, overweight, insecure, and angry at being ridiculed by football star Nash, and Nash, lost and bitter after an accident, unexpectedly find themselves falling in love.
Overweight and insecure, Tallulah Liddell had always been defined by her appearance. The only boy who did seem to notice her was her longtime crush, Nash Lee. When he laughs at a joke aimed at Tallulah the summer before their...
14) The bridge
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"Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth." --
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"Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she's determined to get her death right. She starts visiting a Web site for "completers" --- www.through-the-light.com. On the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, revealing a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she's not on the Web, Daelyn's at her private girls' school, whre she's known as the freak who doesn't talk. Then, a boy named Santana...
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Holiday House
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[2022]
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"Alcanzar la mayoría de edad siendo una chica gorda y morena en un suburbio blanco de Connecticut es difícil. Más aún cuando toda tu vida parece estar en llamas. Charlie Vega es muchas cosas: Inteligente. Divertida. Artística. Ambiciosa. Gorda. La gente a veces tiene problemas con esto último, especialmente su madre. Charlie quiere tener una buena relación con su cuerpo, pero es difícil. Y no ayuda el hecho de que su madre le deje batidos...
18) Losing it
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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.
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