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[2014]., Adolescent, Merit Press Call No: Realistic FIC Fehlbaum Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: All at once Colby manages to ruin--or so she is told--the reputation of her family by exposing her cheating politician father. Her father runs off with another woman, leaving Colby and her mother and sisters nothing. Forced into a trailer park, Colby contemplates suicide when an embarrassing video makes the rounds on the Internet. Colby contemplates suicide--but also the idea of taking a chance and standing up for the truth.
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2021., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC LAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When word gets out that she is putting on a top-secret, invitation-only burlesque show to raise money to attend a life-changing dance program, Addie falls victim to slut- and body-shaming and must learn to embrace exactly who she is.
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2016., Adolescent, Albert Whitman & Company Call No: Realistic FIC Sullivan Edition: Paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Henry deserves his nickname, Biggie, due to his six-foot frame and over three-hundred-pound body. Remarkably, he has found out that his extreme weight actually makes him socially invisible, and he can't remember the last time he was made fun of in school. Online his life is really good, with multiple Internet girlfriends in love with his ability to flirt. One day one of those girls, Annabelle, shoplifts at the gas station where Henry works, and everything about Biggie's life changes.
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2015., Albert Whitman & Co Call No: ROMANCE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Henry "Biggie" Abbott has hidden behind his weight for years, and although he is the son and stepson of two of Finch, Minnesota's most famous athletes, he prefers academic success until the girl of his dreams suggests he join the baseball team, and, with his stepbrother's help, he discovers he is a great pitcher.
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2020., Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F KON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
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2012., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: Teen Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make a live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
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c2010., Hyperion DBG Call No: REALISTIC F PET Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: 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.
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-- Camp Utopia & the Forgiveness DietBy Ruden, Jenny[2014]., Köehler Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Sixteen-year-old Baltimore teen Bethany Stern knows the only way out of spending her summer at Camp Utopia, a fat camp in Northern California, is weight-loss"--Back cover.
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[2021]., Katherine Tegen Books : Harper Alley Call No: GN 741.5 MERCADO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In this graphic novel based on the author's childhood, a young Jewish-Mexican boy named Hudi Mercado joins a series of sports teams to help him lose weight as directed by his doctors. Cheering him along the way is his imaginary friend Chunky, who keeps his spirits up and helps him develop his true passion for comedy.
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[2019]., Juvenile, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F MUR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist"--Provided by the publisher.
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2013., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: TEEN FIC WAL Edition: 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2019., Adolescent, Point Call No: Realistic Fic Cooner Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: 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 photos Maisie has been using, shows up in real life.
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2013., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: Realistic FIC Charlton-Trujillo Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Angie, an overweight high school student, struggles with suicidal tendencies, bullies at school, and the presumed death of her soldier sister in Iraq. But when KC, a new girl in town, takes an interest in Angie, Angie feels the desire to do something with her life for the first time.
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2013., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Angie, an overweight high school student, struggles with suicidal tendencies, bullies at school, and the presumed death of her soldier sister in Iraq. But when KC, a new girl in town, takes an interest in Angie, Angie feels the desire to do something with her life for the first time.
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-- Fat Boy versus the Cheerleaders[2014]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: Realistic FIC Herbach Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Gabe, aka Chunk, a teenager who derives his greatest satisfaction from playing in the school band, finds out that the cheerleaders have appropriated the band's usual source of income (funds from the soda vending machine) for a new dance team, he takes on the school's social hierarchy to fight for the right of band geeks.
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c2009., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Overweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.
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By Going, K. Lc2003., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
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By Going, Kellyc2003., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
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By Going, Kellyc2003., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Realistic FIC Going Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective on life when Curt, a semi-homeless teen who is a genius on guitar, asks Troy to be the drummer in a rock band.
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c2009., Egmont USA Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush.
