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Fipps, Lisa

Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIP

Karmel, Ian

Summary: "Part memoir, part support group, comedian Ian Karmel with help from his sister Alisa, a clinical psychologist, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and traces the way that fat-gaining it, losing it, worrying about it, trying to hide it-dictates the way so many of us live"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2024

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Bowling, Dusti

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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deVos, Kelly

Summary: Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEV

Gordon, Aubrey

Summary: "The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 GOR

Maldonado, Crystal

Summary: Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, tons of followers on Instagram. Except it's all fake. Max is actually 17-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic, bisexual Puerto Rican teenager living in Bakersfield, California. While Kat's life is far from perfect, she thrives as Max: doling out advice, sharing beautiful photos, networking with famous influencers, even making a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

Green, John

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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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GRE

Bacon, Lindo

Summary: "Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates 'thin' with 'healthy' is the problem. The solution? Health at every size. Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2010

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Summary: Filmmaker Joe Cross, recently obese and unhealthy, travels the United States promoting to all he encounters a lifestyle "reboot" centered around consuming only fruit and vegetable juices. Along the way he meets Phil Staples, a morbidly obese man to whom Cross offers his reboot cure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RebootYourLife 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAT

Glines, 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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GLI

Gordon, Aubrey

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Summary: "From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment on the systemic and cultural issues facing plus-sized people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 GOR

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: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRE

Hébert, Marie-Noëlle

Summary: "A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 HEB

Bedrick, David

Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BED

Blas, 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 BLA

Maldonado, Crystal

Summary: "Charlie Vega is smart, funny, artistic, ambitious. And fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. The world wants Charlie to be thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired, like her best friend Amelia. When Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAL

McNeil, Gretchen

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Kate Williams is willing to do whatever it takes to get her acting career back on track, even if that means getting a boring office job to support herself--but when she witnesses a double murder in the office across from hers, will she be able to get anyone to believe her before she becomes the next victim?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCN

Murphy, Julie

Summary: Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUR

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUR

Dark, Kimberly

Summary: "Collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably agin--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARK, KIMBERLY DAR

Murphy, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MUR

Awad, Mona.

Summary: Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWA

Hunter, Lindsay

Summary: "A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts)"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Murphy, 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MUR

Dionne, Evette

Summary: "In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty- nine, Dionne tracks her relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIONNE, EVETTE DIO

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