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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people's experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further...
5) Disfigured
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lydia is a fat, graceful woman struggling to maintain her identity in fashionable Venice Beach, California. Though she is a member of Fat Acceptance Group she still struggles with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world. Darcy, a recovering-anorexic real estate agent, is struggling with the same issues from a very different perspective. Her attempt to join the Fat Acceptance Group is quickly rejected but it introduces her to Lydia....
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kate Williams is willing to do whatever it takes to get her acting career back on track, even if that means getting a boring office job to support herself--but when she witnesses a double murder in the office across from hers, will shebe able to get anyone to believe her before she becomes the next victim?
9) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
10) Fugly
Author
Formats
Description
Defined as nothing but fat in the real world, Beth Soames specializes in trolling beautiful girls online until two new friendships, one online and one offline, make her question her behavior.
12) Nutty professor
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.
13) Starfish
Author
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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
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
Author
Series
Real mermaids volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
While unrest stirs the mer-world, Jade faces the challenges of ninth grade, including seeking a plus-sized dress for the Fall Formal, keeping her mer-ness secret, and figuring out if she and Luke are officially dating.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (491 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A love story involving two people struggling with their weight and their search for romance. But for Mike and Molly falling in love is no easy task, especially when surrounded by friends and family who are just a little too close, and a little too opinionated.
18) Camp Sylvania
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Magnolia 'Maggie' Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight . . . if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp--and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp...
19) Pretty face
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.
20) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
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