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1) Pumpkin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.
Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon so that he...
2) Puddin'
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Series
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
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Description
"Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream of being a newscaster--and to kiss the boy shes crushing on. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, shes more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. Then the fictional world of The Grove relocates...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--
Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “Americas Fattest Teen.” But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends,...
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English
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Faith is not a regular teenager. She has flying superpowers. She's hoping she can get through her senior year in a normal way, but strange things start happening. Meanwhile, she hears rumored sighting of her ex, who was thought to have died months ago.
Faith Herbert can finally admit that shes not a regular teenand take advantage of her new flying superpowers. After the chaos of her first semester, Faith just wants to end her senior year in a normal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp, and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
Description
Avoiding relationships to protect her sensitive heart, plus-sized Molly supports her once-cynical twin, Cassie, when the latter has her own bout of lovesickness, a situation that is complicated by sibling dynamics and an unexpected romantic triangle.
8) The bridge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Aaron is a gay misfit struggling with depression and loneliness. Tillie isn't sure what her problem is, only that she will never be good enough. They arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time. There are four things that could happen: Aaron jumps and Tillie doesn't. Tillie jumps and Aaron doesn't. They both jump. Neither of them jumps. Or maybe all four things happen...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school student Daelyn Rice, who's 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Haylah Swinton is an ace best friend, a loving daughter, and an incredibly patient sister to a four-year-old nutcase of a brother. Best of all, she's pretty confident she's mastered making light of every situation--from her mom's ugh new boyfriend to unsolicited remarks on her plus-sized figure. Haylah's learning to embrace all of her curvy parts and, besides, she has a secret: one day, she'll be a stand-up star. So when thirstalicious Leo reveals...
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Language
English
Description
"Living in Endora is like dancing to no music. Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) should know. Aside from a secret affair with a housewife (Mary Steenburgen), Gilbert spends his days stocking shelves at a grocery store, caring for his mentally handicapped brother (Leonardo DiCaprio), and holding together a large family headed by Mama, a former beauty queen whose weight tops 500 pounds. But just when Gilbert thinks nothing will ever change, a pretty stranger...
13) Precious
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
14) Payback time
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Winnie is crowned Summer Queen in the small town of Misty Haven, she has to balance her new responsibilities with her friendships, a new romance, and her job at her granny's diner..." --
Winnie is all set to attend college in the fall, but first she's spending her summer days working at her granny's diner and spending her midnights with Dallas, the boy she loves to hate and hates that she likes. In a small town like Misty Haven, secrets are...
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jesobel Jones is bold and brash, the daughter of a hand model and a washed-up rock star. Jess sees no need to apologize for her rambling house, her imperfect family, her lack of a boyfriend... or her weight. Jess is who she is. She has her cupcakes, and she eats them, too. No regrets. That is, until Own Clothes Day rolls around at school. Jess and her friends dedicate the requisite hours of planning to their outfits, their hair, and their makeup...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, tons of followers on Instagram. Except it's all fake. Max is actually 17-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic, bisexual Puerto Rican teenager living in Bakersfield, California. While Kat's life is far from perfect, she thrives as Max: doling out advice, sharing beautiful photos, networking with famous influencers, even making a real friend in a follower named Elena. When one of Max's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Becky has been 'strong, healthy, and large' from the day she was born. 'She's shaped like a tomato,' said her brother Abner when he first saw her. Becky has lots of spunk. Never mind that she's Amish, she regularly confronts her mother, her sister, her aunt, and her grandmother without trembling. At the retirement community where she works, she tells the administrator a thing or two. But she can't figure out how to let Daniel Stoltzfus know how much...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"You know Haylah Swinton - she's big, bold and funnier than a cat in a onesie playing the bagpipes. She's been busy proving she's as a kick-butt comedian, she's got herself a fab boyfriend called Dylan, the best girl crew in the world totally have her back, her little brother isn't driving her totally nuts, and did she mention she has a boyfriend called Dylan? Yes, THAT Dylan. But this proving-she's-funny thing is kind of tough sometimes. And come...