FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD VIRGINIA SHREVES feels like a plus-size black sheep in her picture-perfect family, especially next to her star-athlete brother, Byron. Not to mention that her best friend, Shannon, has moved across the country, leaving Virginia to navigate an awkward budding relationship with Froggy Welsh the Fourth all alone. Froggy might like her now, but she has her doubts how he'll react if he ever looks under all her layers of clothes. In order...

An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

As he enters high school, fourteen-year-old Elvin continues to deal with his weight problem as he tries to find his place among his peers.

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.

When Santa discovers that he can no longer fit down chimneys, he goes on a diet and starts exercising, but still has trouble getting his sleigh off the ground on Christmas Eve.

When Mama Elephant puts her family on a diet, their will power remains strong until Granny sends a cake.

Poopsie's plans for self-improvement include losing enough weight to fit into a medium-sized bathing suit and becoming a prima ballerina.

A fat pig tries to exercise and loose weight but finally convinces himself that as a pig he should be big and fat.

When overweight, fourteen-year-old video whiz Doug Cannon is introduced to the sport of cycling, he begins a transformation that leads him to health and self-respect.

After painstakingly losing weight so she can fit into a gown for Prince Boris's Halloween ball, Hazel the witch gives herself the reward she has been craving.