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Bloomsbury USA Childrens
On sale:
July 2009
Price:
$8.99
Format:
Paperback
Size:
5.0625 x 7.75 in
Pages:
336 pp
Ages:
12
Grades:
7
ISBN-13: 9781599903620
ISBN-10: 1599903628
My Big Fat Manifesto
By Susan Vaught
Book Description
A no-holds-barred view of an overweight teen's struggle
Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many of her peers, doing too much. Unlike so many of her friends, she is enormously, irreversibly, sometimes angrily (and occasionally delightedly) overweight. Her most immediate need is a scholarship to college, so she writes an explosive and controversial column every week in the school paper about being fat. Soon, Jamie finds herself fighting for her rights as a very fat girl-and not quietly. As her column raises all kinds of public questions, so too must Jamie find her own private way in the world, with love popping up in an unexpected place, and satisfaction in her size losing ground to real frustration.Tapping into her own experience with losing weight, her training as a psychotherapist, and the current fascination in the media with teens trying drastic weight-loss measures, Susan Vaught writes searing and hilarious prose that will grip readers while asking the most profound questions about life.
"This zesty page-turner will hook readers with romance and energy while addressing a woefully ignored subject." --Kirkus Reviews
"Speaks forcefully about fat issues to those who have experienced them—as well as to those who haven’t." --Booklist
“Jamie is a strong, interesting character who grows over the course of the novel, recognizing her own contradictions. This is a powerful story for readers of any weight.”—School Library Journal
"Thought-provoking and, frequently, vigorous." --Publishers Weekly
"What Jamie accomplishes is a full accounting of her senior year---a year of adventures with friends, successes and failures, last kisses and first ones, all seen through the eyes of an unapologetically fat girl who feelings can be hurt, but who can fight back and forgive. Readers will not only be challenged but also changed by meeting Jamie."--BCCB
"Jamie's character is so well drawn that readers will feel her misery. ...[T]he story is so well written that Jamie's agony is poignant to anyone, regardless of where one falls on the weight scale." --VOYA
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