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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A love story. It's about two people, ordinary yet extraordinary, who have always protected themselves and relied on their ability to laugh through life. Now, with the help of each other, and the Overeaters Anonymous meeting where they met, they are learning to open up and trust one another. But falling in love is no easy task, especially when surrounded by friends and family who are just a little too close, and a little too opinionated. Includes bonus...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen." But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every possibility life has to offer. Everyone thinks they know...
Author
Series
Life of a cactus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
7) Bed
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a quiet, diligent younger brother whose eccentric and tyrannical older brother takes to his bed on his twenty-fifth birthday and resolves never to leave due to his disillusionment with the adult world.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice"--
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy--calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We're in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance "glorifies obesity." The BMI is an...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
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
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Bullied by two mean girls in her sixth-grade class, a lonely, plump girl gains self-confidence and makes new friends after a mysterious fox gently bites her.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Introduces an innovative, supportive program based on teamwork and accountability designed to help people lose weight and keep it off, describing one family's own diet regimen that led them collectively to lose five hundred pounds over the course of a year.
18) Mammoth
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"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."--
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
460L
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.