
Pre-Owned Big Fat Manifesto (Hardcover) 1599902060 9781599902067
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- ISBN: 9781599902067
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 320
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience.
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Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much--including trying to change the world--and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises all kinds of questions, so too, must she find her own private way in her world, with love popping up in an unexpected place, and satisfaction in her size losing ground to real frustration. Tapping into her own experience losing weight, her training as a psychotherapist, and the current fascination in the media for teens who are trying drastic weight-loss measures including surgery, Susan Vaught's searing and hilarious prose will grip readers of all sizes, leaving them eager to hear more.
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionFiction
- GenreChildren's Books
- Publication dateDecember, 2007
- Pages320
- Reading levelGrade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
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Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much--including trying to change the world--and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises all kinds of questions, so too, must she find her own private way in her world, with love popping up in an unexpected place, and satisfaction in her size losing ground to real frustration. Tapping into her own experience losing weight, her training as a psychotherapist, and the current fascination in the media for teens who are trying drastic weight-loss measures including surgery, Susan Vaught's searing and hilarious prose will grip readers of all sizes, leaving them eager to hear more.
- ISBN: 9781599902067
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 320
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience.
-
Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much--including trying to change the world--and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes. As her column raises all kinds of questions, so too, must she find her own private way in her world, with love popping up in an unexpected place, and satisfaction in her size losing ground to real frustration. Tapping into her own experience losing weight, her training as a psychotherapist, and the current fascination in the media for teens who are trying drastic weight-loss measures including surgery, Susan Vaught's searing and hilarious prose will grip readers of all sizes, leaving them eager to hear more.
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