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Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...." Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood...
3) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Victoria Dawson, having always been insulted by her parents for not being as thin and pretty as they would like her to be, moves from Los Angeles to New York, where she lands a job at a private high school and begins to create her own life, but, when her sister announces she is engaged, Victoria's insecurities about her body and love life come to the forefront and once again she is faced with the challenge of accepting herself for who she is.
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