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Obesity

Kissing the Rain

Kevin Brooks

Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.

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Fat Kid Rules the World

Kelly Going

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 dr

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Fat Kid Rules the World

Kelly Going

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

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Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack

M. E. Kerr

Many things change in a teenage boy's life when he meets the overweight girl who answers his advertisement for the cat he must give away.

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Straight Talk About Eating Disorders

Michael Maloney

Describes compulsive eating, bulimia, and anorexia and discusses the mixed messages given to women and girls about eating, weight, diet, and looks, and how these messages can be destructive.

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Straight Talk About Eating Disorders

Michael Maloney

Describes compulsive eating, bulimia, and anorexia and discusses the mixed messages given to women and girls about eating, weight, diet, and looks, and how these messages can be destructive.

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