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1) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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2022 ALA Youth Media Awards
All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Mighty Girls
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Mighty Girls
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Description
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.
Author
Series
Life of a cactus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
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.
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.
4) Pumpkin
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Patricia “Sweet Pea” DiMarco wasnt sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the “brilliant” idea of living in nearly identical houses on the same street. In the one house between them lives their eccentric neighbor Miss Flora Mae, the famed local advice columnist behind “Miss Flora Mae I?” Dividing her time between two homes is not easy. And it doesnt...
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) Blob
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
School is hell when you're not perfect. -- Book.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible for promoting the idea that thin is better.
10) Accidental love
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After unexpectedly falling in love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
14) 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
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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.
15) Losing the field
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
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.
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.
20) Payback time
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
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