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Cleavage : Breakaway Fiction for Real Girls
A collection of sparkling, original stories about taking pride in wearing our bodies just the way they are and challenging mainstream notions of beauty and femininity.
186 p. 2008
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Does this Book Make Me Look Fat?
215 p. 2008
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Wintergirls
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
278 p. 2009
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Antieau, Kim
Mercy Unbound
Mercy believes that she is turning into an angel. Angels don't need to eat, so Mercy has decided she doesn't need to either. When her parents send her to an eating disorder clinic, Mercy is scared and confused. She isn't like the other girls who are so obviously sick. If people could just see her wings, they would know. But her wings don't come and Mercy begins to have doubts. What if she isn't really an angel? What if she's just a girl? What if she is killing herself? Can she stop?
165 p. 2006
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Bell, Julia
Massive
When her eating disordered mother sweeps her off to live in the city, Carmen finds that her old world is disappearing. As her life spirals out of control Carmen begins to take charge of the only thing she can--what she eats. If she were thin, very thin, could it all be different?
261 p. 2006
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Brande, Robin.
Fat Cat
2009
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Chambers, Veronica
Plus
This is the unbelievable story of how I went to college, gained twenty-five pounds, got dumped by my boyfriend, failed physics and became a worldfamous supermodel.a" So begins the Cinderella story of Beatrice Wilson, whose life changes overnight when sheas discovered by a scout for the oldest, most prestigious modeling agency in Americaafor their plus-sized division. Now she must find the confidence to vanquish skinny rivals, fend off sleazy photographers, and banish scheming frenemies in her rise to superstardom, all while trying to get her ex-boyfriend back. But Bea learns that to win prince charming, you first have to find a way to love yourself.
2009
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Dessen, Sarah
Just Listen
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
371 p. 2006
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Dionne, Erin
Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies
Overweight twelve-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss HuskeyPeach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.
243 p. 2009
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Edwards, Jo
Go Figure
Ever since she was identified as a fat girl at cheerleading camp in fifth grade, Ryan's been on a mission to shed more than a few pounds. Lately she's also on the hunt for a new relationship. Now that her ex-boyfriend is a rock star - currently posing on the cover of Rolling Stone - Ryan seriously needs to move on.
2007
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George, Madeleine
Looks
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
240 p. 2008
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Hogan, Mary
Pretty Face
When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.
213 p. 2008
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Karim, Sheba.
Skunk Girl
Nina Khan is not just the only Asian or Muslim student in her small-town high school in upstate New York, she is also faces the legacy of her Supernerd older sister, body hair, and the pain of having a crush when her parents forbid her to date.
231 p. 2009
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Mackler, Carolyn
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
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.
246 p. 2003
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Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Plum-Ucci, Carol
What Happened to Lani Garver
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
307 p. 2002
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My So-Called Life
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Redd, Nancy Amanda
Body Drama : Real Girls Real Bodies Real Issues Real Answers
Especially for teen girls. Learn all about how your body works and how to take care of yourself.
217 p. 2008
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Rosoff, Meg
How I Live Now
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
194 p. 2004
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It's Due Tomorrow!
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War Stories
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Shaw, Liane
Thinandbeautiful.com
2009
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Vrettos, Adrienne Maria
Skin
When his parents decide to separate, eighth-grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.
240 p. 2006
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Zarr, Sara
Sweethearts : a Novel
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.
217 p. 2008
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