overweight teenagers

"Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream of being a newscaster--and to kiss the boy she's crushing on. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she's more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester, they surprise everyone (especially themselves) by realizing that they might have more in common than they ever imagined"--Amazon.com.

"Although she has never worried about her weight, a problem with her outfit and an encounter with a bully make Jess question her lack of concern with her own image"--Provided by publisher.

Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her good friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up an increasingly vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie a final letter from her sister, including a list of places she wanted the two of them to visit when she got home from the war. With her mother threatening to send Angie to a ?treatment center? and the situation at school becoming violent, Angie enlists the help of her estranged childhood friend, Jamboree. Along with a few other outsiders, they pack into an RV and head across the state on the road trip Angie's sister did not live to take. It might be just what Angie needs to find a way to let her sister go, and find herself in the process.

"Although she has never worried about her weight, a problem with her outfit and an encounter with a bully make Jess question her lack of concern with her own image"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso has had a total of twenty-six crushes and precisely zero kisses, and her twin sister, Cassie, is lesbian. When Cassie starts dating a new girlfriend, the pansexual Korean American Mina, Molly finds herself drawn to Mina's cute hipster male sidekick, Will. Molly hopes dating Will might help heal the division between her and her twin, but when she becomes more attracted to Reid, a geeky, chubby coworker, she worries the growing distance between her and Cassie might never heal.

Four teens at a weight loss camp investigate the murder of one of the staff.

Fat Angie's sister was captured in Iraq, she is the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat, but her life changes when she meets the daring new girl, KC Romance.

Seventeen-year-old Sugar wasn't always overweight but she is now. She takes care of her mother in their run-down home, a mother who is so big she hasn't gotten out of bed in months. And then Sugar meets Even (not Evan, his father misspelled his name on the birth certificate). For the first time she has the experience of someone seeing her, and not her body. As their friendship builds, Sugar allows herself to think about a future for herself that is not weighed down by her body or her mother.

Stephanie Klein recounts her experiences battling her weight as a child, including the summer she spent at fat camp, and explains how those experiences shaped every aspect of her life until she was finally able to come to terms with her size.

Stephanie Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. Teased by her classmates, reminded by her father that no one likes fat girls, and a witness to her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body, Stephanie's problem was not solved by being sent to "fat camp". She shares her thoughts and feelings of that time in her life with her readers, just as she reveals her mind-set now as a physically fit, and thin, wife and mother.