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Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Married, pregnant, and living at a "fat camp" in Maine, sixteen-year-old Eleanor has many questions about her future, especially whether the marriage will last and if she should keep the baby.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's Texas farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her future.
Author
Series
Circles of Heck volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Milton Fauster puts aside his own escape plans to help his sister, Marlo, who is in training to be an underworld secretary, and his best friend, Virgil, who is stuck in the circle of Heck reserved for overweight children.
6) Pretty face
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.
Author
Series
And other skills I learned as a superspy volume 01
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overweight and non-athletic, twelve-year-old Hale may have been born and raised to be a spy for the Sub Rosa Society but it seems he is unlikely to become a Field Agent until his parents are captured by the evil League and Hale sets out on a solo mission to save them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.
11) Jelly
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jelly hides her true self behind her humor and keeps her true thoughts and feelings locked away in a notebook. Can she find the courage to share who she really is?
Author
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
And other skills I learned as a superspy volume 02
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Together with his friends, twelve-year-old Hale, an overweight and non-athletic double agent against SRS, the corrupt spy organization he was raised in, travels to Switzerland to destroy the SRS bank account." --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
15) Slob
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a...
17) Dear Sweet Pea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"The first middle grade novel from Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin' (now a popular Netflix film), is a funny, heartwarming story perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Ali Benjamin, and Holly Goldberg Sloan. Patricia "Sweet Pea" DiMarco wasn't sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the "brilliant" idea of living in nearly identical houses...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers cross paths. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, culminating in heroic turns-of-heart and the most epic musical ever to grace the high school stage.
19) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
"Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible for promoting the idea that thin is better.
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