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Dough Boy

Peter Marino

Fifteen-year-old Tristan deals with intensified criticism about his weight when the nutrition-obsessed daughter of his mother's boyfriend, Frank, moves in.

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Keeping the Moon

Sarah Dessen

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 se

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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

Carolyn Mackler

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 re

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Beatrice Sparks

Seventeen-year-old Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A average to stay on her college gymnastics team, becomes obsessive about her weight and develops anorexia.

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Healthy Eating for Weight Management

Mary Turck

Discusses what determines healthy weight, how body image affects teens, and how to combine diet and exercise to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight.

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Drugs and Dieting

Jeremy Roberts

Explores the myths and the realities of trying to use drugs in order to lose or gain weight.

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Life in the Fat Lane

Cherie Bennett

Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight.

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The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

Carolyn Mackler

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 re

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Life in the Fat Lane

Cherie Bennett

Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight.

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How I Changed My Life

Todd Strasser

Overweight high school senior Bo decides to change her image while working on the school play with a former star football player who is also struggling to find a new identity for himself.

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