Green, John
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GREGreen, John
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREGlines, Abbi
Summary: Told in separate voices, seventeen-year-old Tallulah Leddel, overweight, insecure, and angry at being ridiculed by football star Nash, and Nash, lost and bitter after an accident, unexpectedly find themselves falling in love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2018
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Summary: New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: "The Second Life of Abigail Walker introduces listeners to Abby, a sixth grader who's a little heavier than her peers--and who shoulders the brunt of their ridicule because of it. Finally giving up on trying to fit in, Abby discovers a new life, and new friends, waiting just around the bend" -- from publisher's web site.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DOWWaller, Claire
Summary: Defined as nothing but fat in the real world, Beth Soames specializes in trolling beautiful girls online until two new friendships, one online and one offline, make her question her behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALSchaper, Anna Garcia
Summary: Told in alternating timelines, fifteen-year-old overweight Pilar ignores her persistent bullies and pursues her dream of acting in the school production of "Our Town," while in 1976 her grandmother finally finds the strength to leave her abusive husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHBlas, Terry
Summary: A group of teens at Camp Blood find themselves in a real-life murder mystery when they witness the murder of a beloved counselor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLACharlton-Trujillo, e. E.
Summary: Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her only friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up a vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHABarson, K. A.
Summary: "When Ann decides that she is going to lose 45 pounds in time for her aunt's wedding, she discovers that what she looks like is not all that matters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARKonigsberg, Bill
Summary: Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KONMurphy, Julie
Summary: When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MURPearce, Jackson
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PEARipken, Cal
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Cody Parker moves to Baltimore, Maryland, where as a fat eighth-grader, he has to deal with brutal teasing from a baseball teammate, and his school is beset by a rash of mysterious thefts that threaten to sideline Cody and ruin a goldenseason for his team.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIPMurphy, Julie
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MURDevos, Kelly.
Summary: High school senior Cookie Vonn's post graduation dreams include getting out of Phoenix, attending Parsons and becoming the next great fashion designer. But in the world of fashion, being fat is a cardinal sin. It doesn't help that she's constantly compared to her supermodel mother and named after a dessert. Thanks to her job at a fashion blog, Cookie scores a trip to New York to pitch her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEVCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION CholdenkoMenon, Sandhya
Summary: Told in two voices, disappointed-in-love Ashish Patel and self-proclaimed fat athlete Sweetie Nair begin to find their true selves while dating under contract.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENGriffin, N
Summary: "Crippled with guilt after causing a horrific accident two years earlier, sixteen-year-old Bett's life is a series of pluses and minuses. But when the pluses become too much to outweigh the minuses, Bett is forced to confront her self-harming behavior"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRIDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: Bullied by two mean girls in her sixth-grade class, a lonely, plump girl gains self-confidence and makes new friends after a mysterious fox gently bites her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DOWMaldonado, Crystal
Summary: Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: When Felipe, who is very insecure about his weight, is forced to spend winter break with his long-term crush, Caio, he must face his unresolved issues head-on.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PUSH 2020
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MARDockrill, Laura
Summary: Following a near-fatal asthma attack, sixteen-year-old BB, who is happy with being big, reluctantly agrees to keep a food diary, but finds it teaches her a lot about herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOCMurphy, Julie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015