Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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2009., Adolescent, Speak Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
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2003., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Young adult FIC MACKLER Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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1999., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: Young adult FIC DESSEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
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-- Models do not eat chocolate cookies[2009]., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Young adult FIC DIONNE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss Huskey Peach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.
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[2014?]., Adolescent, Point Call No: REALISTIC F COO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Stone Arch Books Call No: Young adult FIC KATH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Stone Arch novelsSummary Note: Fourteen-year-old Kat is determined to spend the summer before starting high school losing weight, but can she do it?.
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By Zarr, Sara2008., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Teen Fiction Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: 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. (Socio-Economic Diversity).
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By Zarr, Sara2008., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Young adult FIC ZARR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jennifer Harris, years after being the tormented outsider on the playground, has reinvented herself into Jenna Vaughn, a popular girl with what seems to be the perfect life, but when a childhood friend re-enters her life, she is forced to confront the most traumatic event of her past and question who she really is.
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By Zarr, Sarac2008., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: ROMANCE F ZAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
