Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

Crystal Maldonado

eBook - 2021

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.A NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD WINNER!Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when... Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns one thing—he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really...

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Published
Holiday House
Language
English
Main Author
Crystal Maldonado
Online Access
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Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9780823448906
Release Date2/2/2021
Kindle Book
ASINB08816TQ8C
Release Date2/2/2021
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780823448906
Release Date2/2/2021