Benjamin, Carol Lea. Nobody's Baby Now.  Y FIC Benjamin.
Fifteen-year-old Olivia, unhappy because she is overweight and because she must care for her invalid grandmother after school every day, at first denies, then struggles to come to terms with both problems.

Busselle, Rebecca.  Bathing Ugly.  Y FIC Busselle
Chosen to compete in the camp's bathing ugly contest because of her weight, Betsy decides to push the idea to its limit and force the campers to rethink their ideas about the importance of  outward appearance.

Cavallaro, Ann. Blimp.  Y FIC Cavallaro.
Overweight Kim's relationship with a handsome new senior is fraught with ups and downs before they are able to resolve their problems.

Christopher, Matt.  Olympic Dream.  JPB C
When overweight fourteen-year-old video whiz Doug Cannon is introduced to the sport of cycling he begins a transformation that leads him to health and self-respect.

Cooper, Ilene.  The New, Improved Gretchen Hubbard.  J FIC Cooper
Formerly "Hippo Hubbard" of the sixth grade, Gretchen slims down but feels uncomfortable receiving compliments and attention from her classmates.

Dessen, Sarah.  Keeping the Moon.  Y FIC Dessen
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.

Frank, Lucy.  I Am an Artichoke. Y FIC Frank
Working as a mother's helper in New York City, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself caught in the middle of a troubled relationship between an eccentric writer and her anorexic daughter.

Greenberg, Jan. The Pig-Out Blues.  Y FIC Greenberg.
A slightly overweight, broke, and bored fifteen-year-old slowly learns to handle her two major problems--her eating habits and her mother.

Hautzig, Deborah. Second Star to the Right.  YPB H
As 14-year-old Leslie begins to shed the weight she feels makes her imperfect, she finds it increasingly difficult to reach out for the  psychological help she knows she needs.

Kim : Empty iInside : The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager.  Y PB K
Seventeen-year-old Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A average to stay on her college gymnastics team, becomes obsessive about her weight and develops anorexia.

Lipsyte, Robert. One Fat Summer.  Y PB L
An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

Lynch, Chris. Extreme Elvin.  Y FIC Lynch
As he enters high school, fourteen-year-old Elvin continues to deal with his weight problem as he tries to find his place among his peers.

Lynch, Chris.  Slot Machine.  Y FIC Lynch
When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at St. Paul's Seminary Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try out various sports in order to find out where they belong.

Marino, Peter. Dough Boy. Y FIC Marino
Overweight, fifteen-year-old Tristan, who lives happily with his divorced mother and her boyfriend Frank, suddenly finds that he must deal with intensified criticism about his weight and other aspects of his life when Frank's popular but troubled, nutrition-obsessed daughter moves in.

Newman, Lesléa. Fat Chance.  Y FIC Newman
In a series of diary entries, thirteen-year-old Judi recounts her struggles to lose weight, hide her bulimia from her mother, find a boy friend, and decide on a profession.

Sachs, Marilyn. The Fat Girl.  Y FIC Sachs
Jeff, a high school senior, becomes obsessed with creating a new, beautiful, person out of an unhappy fat girl, but when she begins to think independently, he loses control of the situation.

Sinykin, Sheri Cooper. Next Thing to Strangers.  Y FIC Sinykin
While visiting their grandparents at a trailer park in Arizona, a diabetic boy and an overweight girl become friends and learn a lesson about self-acceptance.

Smith, Doris Buchanan.   Last Was Lloyd.  J FIC Smith
A friendless, overweight 12-year-old with an overprotective mother begins to change the  monotonous pattern of his life.

Strasser, Todd. How I Changed My Life.  Y FIC Strasser
Overweight high school senior Bo decides to change her image while working on the school play with a former star football player who is also struggling to find a new identity for himself.

Stren, Patti. I Was a 15-Year-Old Blimp.  Y FIC Stren
Fifteen-year-old Gabby resorts to drastic measures in her struggle to lose weight but finds there is more to being grown up than being skinny.

Supplee, Suzanne.  Artichoke's Heart. Y Fic Supplee
When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.

Wersba, Barbara. Fat, a Love Story.  Y FIC Wersba.
During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.
7/08