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2013, Adolescent, Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Call No: 616.39 OBE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Issues that concern youSummary Note: "Issues That Concern You: Obesity: This series provides readers with information on topics of current interest. Focusing on important social issues, each anthology examines its subject in a variety of ways, from personal accounts to factual articles"--
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2004., Lucent Call No: Guide 616.3 Abr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Diseases and disordersSummary Note: Examines the growing health problem of obesity, its social and emotional impacts, causes, and treatment, and research that is being conducted, not only on new drug therapies, diet, and exercise, but also on improved education.
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By Gay, Kathlync2006., Adolescent, Enslow Call No: Guide 616.3 Gay Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Issues in focus todaySummary Note: Examines causes of the increase in obesity in the U.S., describes the benefits and dangers of weight-loss diets and surgery, and discusses the roles of good nutrition, activity, and moderation in a healthy lifestyle.
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c2006., Juvenile, Mason Crest Publishers Call No: 616.3 98 00973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Obesity : modern-day epidemicSummary Note: Identifies obesity as a health crisis of epidemic proportions in the United States, discusses the role of fast food and supersizing in perpetuating the problem, and offers advice on how to make healthier choices.
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c2006., Mason Crest Publishers Call No: 616.3 98 00973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Obesity (Philadelphia, Pa.)Summary Note: Identifies obesity as a health crisis of epidemic proportions in the United States, discusses the role of fast food and supersizing in perpetuating the problem, and offers advice on how to make healthier choices.
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[2014]., Nation Books Call No: FOOD NF COH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Dr. Cohen explains the forces behind the obesity epidemic and how we, as a nation, can overcome it. Her conclusions contradict conventional wisdom and widely held expert opinion, and go against our own intuitive beliefs about the way we eat.
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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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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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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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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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2006., Mason Crest Publishers Call No: 616.3 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book discusses common physical and psychosocial consequences of obesity and how the costs of excess weight and their health complications are adding up for our society.
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c2008., Rodale Call No: 618.9 ZIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This must-have guide for concerned parents offers detailed analysis and nutritional tips on thousands of the most popular food choices for kids. Covering the best and worst options available at the most popular restaurants in the country as well as the healthiest--and most harmful--foods in the supermarket aisles, if kids are eating it, this book is probably analyzing it. Other features include: restaurant report cards on the best chain restaurants for your kids; drink this, not that! for kids; the 20 worst kids' meals in America; 10 "healthy" foods that aren't; and, the 8 foods you should feed your kid every day.
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-- Be the leanest, fittest family on the block!c2008., Rodale Call No: 618.92 ZINCZENKO Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: A guide for children on making food choices that can promote weight loss. Features recommendations of common brands, fast-food menu items, and chain restaurant items.
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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.
