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Author
Series
Faith Herbert origin story volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A plus-sized high school senior who hides a secret ability to fly pursues an unexpected romantic relationship with the heroine star of her favorite teen drama before her investigation into a new recreational drug puts those she loves in danger.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A fun, fast read...it will resonate with readers who dabble in any sort of arts, dark or otherwise." --NPR.org "With a singular and hilariously cutting teen voice, UNDEAD GIRL GANG is sure to be one of the most talked-about YA novels of the year." --BookPage Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form a hilariously unlikely--and unwilling--vigilante...
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, seventeen-year-old Tallulah Liddell, 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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LGBTQIA+ Young Adult Fiction
Libros para celebrar el mes del Orgullo LGBTQ+
NYT - Young Adult
Teen Romance
Libros para celebrar el mes del Orgullo LGBTQ+
NYT - Young Adult
Teen Romance
Formats
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.
8) Fat Angie
Author
Series
Fat Angie volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Angie overeats to cope with the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really is.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.
11) Pumpkin
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
In the small West Texas town of Clover City, 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...
12) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom, Willowdean has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini...
13) The bridge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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. Aaron is a gay misfit struggling with depression and loneliness. Tillie isn't sure what her problem is -- only that she will never be good enough. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people's lives. While her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into the world of dating and romances, Abby's been happy to focus on her plus-size style blog and her dreams of taking the fashion industry by storm. When she lands a great internship at her favorite boutique, she's thrilled to take the first step toward her dream career. Then she...
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