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Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
Contributor(s): Maldonado, Crystal (Author)

ISBN: 0823447170 ISBN-13: 9780823447176
Publisher: Holiday House

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2021

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Dating & Sex
- Young Adult Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2020015942

Age Level: 13-17

Grade Level: 8-12

Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" L (0.92 lbs) 352 pages

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Publisher Description:
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard.
Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.

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 see her?

Because it's time people did.

A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves.

A New England Book Award Finalist

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