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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins is beloved for her heartfelt novels filled with humor and wisdom. Now, in her newest novel, Good Luck with That, she tackles an issue every woman deals with: body image and self-acceptance. Emerson, Georgia and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Despite what Dyamonde and Free say, Damaria worries that she is getting fat, until a classmate's problem with diabetes causes her to change her thoughts about body image.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes, the shortest kid in class and still chosen last at recess, hones his basketball skills with Mr. Havens and earns the respect of his third-grade classmates.
6) One to watch
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bea Schumacher is a leading fashion blogger, known for her warm, honest body-positive message. But after an unexpected heartbreak, Bea's confidence is shaken and she feels hopelessly alone. In the midst of her sadness (and some drunken internet rantings), she receives a surprising proposition: Would Bea like to be the first plus-size woman to star in the next season of reality dating competition sensation Main Squeeze? Against her better judgment,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old artist Zailey lives in a utopian community where residents are forbidden from anything that might reveal their image, but when her grandmother discovers her secret collection of portraits, it triggers a chain of events that enables Zailey to view everything in a new way.
Author
Series
Littlest bigfoot trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A misfit shipped to a boarding school by her family, Alice rescues Millie Maximus from drowning and after discovering that Millie is a Bigfoot, part of a clan that lives deep in the woods, Alice tries to find a place where she and Millie can fit in.
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a laugh-out-loud funny and painstakingly real tale of friendship, furry creatures, and finding the place where you belong.Alice Mayfair, twelve...
9) To be honest
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"Savannah's mother has become overbearing regarding weight and body image. Meanwhile, Savannah meets the cute new guy at school, who has insecurities of his own."--
10) Milk fed
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 350L
Language
English
Description
"All bottoms are wonderful! Don't you agree? Each animal in this adorable book has a different reason for loving their behind--from cute and round to fashionable and striped! Talented illustrator Maki Saito makes kids laugh out loud with playful illustrations of the backsides of hippos, zebras, pandas, mandrills, and more of our favorite animals. Her traditional Japanese art techniques add a sophisticated, beautiful feel to a book about ... animal...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Greer Walsh struggles with the experience of having very large breasts and feeling isolated by the unwanted attention they garner until a group of friends and a romantic interest help her regain her sense of self"--
Greer Walsh wants to rediscover her sense of self, but since the summer before ninth grade her body decided to change all the rules. Now she's the only Kennedy High student whose breasts are bigger than her head. She's...
13) Some bodies
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
290L
Language
English
Description
"Through playful rhymes and colorful artwork, all the things that make our bodies special-from the texture of our hair to the color of our eyes-are celebrated. This sweet and inclusive book encourages young readers to acknowledge and accept differences, and offers the perfect opportunity to open up conversations about body acceptance. Back matter includes tips and conversation starters for parents and educators to use with children"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
Neither Malena nor Ruby expected to be leaders of their high school's dress code rebellion. Meanwhile, the girls have to face their own insecurities and biases, as well as the ups and downs of their newfound friendship.
When Malena Rosario goes to school bra-less after a bad sunburn, she is humiliated by the administration for the Florida high school into covering up. Ruby McAllister has a reputation as her school's outspoken feminist rebel, and...
15) Big boned
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lori Palmer is the new girl at Bay Water High, where students prize glossy hair, "beach' bodies, and thigh gaps above all else, which is so not her. She misses her old school, where her artistic talent was more important to her peers than a chia smoothie recipe ever was. Uncomfortable in her own size-sixteen skin, Lori decides to survive senior year as best she can by blending into the background while she melts in the summer heat. But her plans...
Author
Publisher
Readers Digest Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Kids are as different as night and day. And, guess what? They love it. Some adore the fact that their braces dazzle and gleam, others feel distinguished when they wear their glasses. Still others wouldn't trade their big feet for a lifetime of free video games. Includes a mylar mirror embedded in the last page to let kids take a look at themselves and decide what they like best about themselves.
18) We are mayhem
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help new friend Abigail Rose take her family's amateur wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction.
19) All of me
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ari faces what it is to be a man while dealing with a cross-country move, his parents' separation, being bullied for his weight, and belatedly starting bar mitzvah preparations.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
High school debater TJ Powar, after she and her cousin become the subject of an ugly meme, makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful... but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet.