Fat Cat
by Robin Brande
One of the really good teen books I've encountered lately. Starts out simple--overweight girl wants to win the science contest because she's sick and tired of losing to her former best friend. A boy, of course. But it doesn't stay simple for long.
Soon we're dealing with some pretty intense issues of self-loathing, food comfort, control, betrayal... and maybe even dating. At first I thought the girl seemed impossibly naive about sex--she seemed to be shockingly ignorant about what seventeen-year-old boys thought about--but I was wrong. She had such a negative self image that she never considered herself attractive.
Lots of good stuff here. My only quibble is that she didn't dress the part for her final presentation.
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