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3) Dietland
Author
Language
English
Description
"A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"--
5) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old eighth-grader Anthony Castillo uses "f-bombs" in the angst-ridden song he writes for his rock band, the Rusty Soles, and while it becomes an instant viral hit, he must decide if being a hero is worth the trouble that singing it on Arts Night would cause.
6) The whale
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
7) Looks
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
240 p., [8] p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
8) ¡Cataplof!
Author
Series
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
Español
Description
En ocasiones ser una silla no resulta nada fácil. Y menos cuando se vive con la señora Julia. Pero ¡todo tiene un límite! Y es increíble lo mucho que se consigue con astucia y un poco de imaginación.
Sometimes, being a chair isn't easy, particularly when you live with señora Julia. But, there are limits to what a chair can put up with.
9) Empty
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.
10) Butter
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
13) Fake
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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...
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