weight control

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weight control

Dinah and the green fat kingdom

1988
A 12-year-old girl deals with problems of overweight and family relationships.

Catundra

1978
A fat cat loses weight with the help of a friendly mole.

Too fat? Too thin?

Do you have a choice?
1984
Discusses the results of the latest studies and theories on weight control emphasizing the role of heredity as well as habits in determining individual weight. Includes a chart listing daily nutritional needs.

The teenage surefire diet cookbook

1979
Presents a weight loss program developed especially for teenagers, with a basic meal plan emphasizing nutrition and taste. Includes more than ninety recipes.

How I changed my life

2004
Overweight high school senior Bo decides to change her image while working on the school play with a former star football player who is also struggling to find a new identity for himself.
Cover image of How I changed my life

Keeping the moon

2004
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.

Sweethearts

a novel
2008
Jennifer Harris, years after being the tormented outsider on the playground, has reinvented herself into Jenna Vaughn, a popular girl with what seems to be the perfect life, but when a childhood friend re-enters her life, she is forced to confront the most traumatic event of her past and question who she really is.

Fat, a love story

1990
During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.

Underneath I'm different

1983
Amy, an overweight teenager who has never had a date, is thought beautiful by an artistic, high-strung boy who suffers a nervous breakdown.

Mishmash and the big fat problem

1982
When Mishmash the dog becomes overweight, Pete and Wanda try hypnosis and an exercise routine to get him slim again.

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