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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
3) Skinny
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
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.
6) Jelly Belly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1981]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The fattest kid in the fifth grade wants to lose weight, but not badly enough to starve.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Elise comes from a long line of college athletes. More than anything else, she wants to wear the University of North Carolina uniform and play for the college where her parents went. It's a lot of pressure, but if she works hard, she just might make it. At least that's what Elise thinks before she notices that some of her teammates are outplaying her. And a UNC scout is visiting in a few weeks. That's where the pills come in. Taking "performance...
Author
Series
Large family volume 3
Description
When Mama Elephant puts her family on a diet, their will power remains strong until Granny sends a cake.
9) Fat chance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In a series of diary entries, thirteen-year-old Judi recounts her struggles to lose weight, hide her bulimia from her mother, find a boy friend, and decide on a profession.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.
12) Catundra
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A fat cat loses weight with the help of a friendly mole.
15) Pie magic
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Bertie thinks that other kids will like him if he loses weight and so he drinks a special remedy which causes weightlessness, but getting thin requires other measures.
16) 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.
Author
Series
Murphy the dog volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having decided that her yellow Labrador is overweight, Cheryl puts him on a diet and makes him exercise, a program which has marvelous results
Author
Series
Time Zone High stories volume 1
Pub. Date
2008, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Overweight high school senior Bo decides to change her image while working on the school play with a former star football player who is also struggling to find a new identity for himself.