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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
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 self.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
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...
3) The fat girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeff, a high school senior, becomes obsessed with creating a new, beautiful, person out of an unhappy fat girl, but when she begins to think independently, he loses control of the situation.
Author
Series
Elvin Bishop books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
8) Sweethearts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
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.
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.
11) The Gulps
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After their van and the killer whale water slide break down under the strain of their excessive weight, the Gulps decide to eat right and exercise.
12) Skinny
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.
13) A piece of cake
Author
Series
Large family volume 3
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
When Mama Elephant puts her family on a diet, their will power remains strong until Granny sends a cake.
14) Catundra
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1060L
Language
English
Description
A fat cat loses weight with the help of a friendly mole.
17) Big pink pig
Author
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
A fat pig tries to exercise and loose weight but finally convinces himself that as a pig he should be big and fat.
18) Yummers!
Author
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emily Pig accepts Eugene Turtle's advice to walk as a way of losing weight, but runs into too many edible diversions.
19) Olympic dream
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
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.
20) Last was Lloyd
Author
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
A friendless, overweight 12-year-old with an overprotective mother begins to change the monotonous pattern of his life.
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