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Wishinsky, Frieda (author., Author).

Summary: It's hard enough for Eve to adjust to a new high school without the extra weight she's gained over the summer. Her best friend is ashamed to hang out with her, and she's become the focus of a schoolmate's cruelty. Determined not to be "that pathetic fat girl" at school, Eve struggles with a diet and forces herself to join a mentoring program. The diet only makes her food obsessed, and she feels she is failing as a mentor. How can a lonely fat girl gain the confidence she needs to succeed?

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  • ISBN: 9781554691821
  • ISBN: 9781554691814
  • Physical Description: 98 pages ; 18 cm.
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  • Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, [2010].

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Target Audience Note:
Young Adult Amazon
Subject: English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers
High interest-low vocabulary books -- Level 3
Readers (Adult)
Social Issues -- Friendship
High school students -- Fiction
Teenagers -- Fiction
Fiction
Weight gain -- Fiction
Genre: Readers (Publications).
High interest-low vocabulary books.
Fiction.
Novels.

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Summary: It's hard enough for Eve to adjust to a new high school without the extra weight she's gained over the summer. Her best friend is ashamed to hang out with her, and she's become the focus of a schoolmate's cruelty. Determined not to be "that pathetic fat girl" at school, Eve struggles with a diet and forces herself to join a mentoring program. The diet only makes her food obsessed, and she feels she is failing as a mentor. How can a lonely fat girl gain the confidence she needs to succeed?

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