YOUNG ADULT
EATING DISORDERS/ WEIGHT CONTROL
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.
Brande, Robin. Fat Cat.
Y FIC Brande
Overweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science
project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the
earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet
and foregoing technology.
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.
Dionne, Erin. Models
Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies. Y Fic Dionne
Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose
weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss HuskeyPeach
modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered
her--against her wishes.
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.
Sarkar, Dona. Shrink
to
Fit. YPB Sarkar
Losing weight is the solution to all the basketballstar Leah
Mandeville's problems, or so she thinks.
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.
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