Life In The Fat Lane (Paperback)
| Author: Cherie Bennett |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
ISBN-10: 0385740069
ISBN-13: 9780385740067
Sku: 217656072
Publish Date: 7/12/2011
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.25H x 5.5L x 0.75T
Pages:
265
Age Range:
16 to UP
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| Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl. *Author: Bennett, Cherie *Publication Date: 2011/07/12 *Number of Pages: 265 *Binding Type: Paperback *Grade Level: 7-9 *Language: English *Depth: 0.75 *Width: 5.50 *Height: 8.25 |
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Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet. Until she gets fat. Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp. She's desperate to get her to-die-for body back--and to find an explanation for her rapid weight gain. When she's diagnosed with a mysterious metabolic disorder that has no known cure, Lara fears she'll spend the rest of her life trapped in a fat suit. Who will stand by her? Her image-conscious family? Her shallow friends? Her handsome boyfriend? Or will she be left alone in the land of the fat girls? From the Paperback edition. |
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"While the hazard of setting unrealistic standards of beauty is a familiar theme in teen novels, the author lays out the issues with unusual clarity, sharp insight, and cutting irony. The book's aim is not high culture but high school culture, and it scores for pure entertainment value." 12/15/1997 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Less a problem novel than walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes story, this may resonate with teens of many sizes." - Deborah Stevenson February 1998
"While the hazard of setting unrealistic standards of beauty is a familiar theme in teen novels, the author lays out the issues with unusual clarity, sharp insight, and cutting irony. The book's aim is not high culture but high school culture, and it scores for pure entertainment value." 12/15/1997 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Less a problem novel than walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes story, this may resonate with teens of many sizes." - Deborah Stevenson February 1998
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