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• Leah on the Offbeat

  Albertalli, Becky

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  "With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting."

• Juliet Takes a Breath

  Rivera, Gabby

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  Also currently available as an eBook, and a Teen Graphic Novel. // "Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Is a Revolution

  Watson, Renée

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  Also currently available as an eBook. // "Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani's birthday. Tye Brown, the MC is perfect, except-- he is an activist and is spending the summer putting on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Faith

  Taking Flight

  Murphy, Julie

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  "Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, she's volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Body Shines

  Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat

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  Also currently available as an eBook. // "Sixteen stories celebrating fat teens with bodies of many shapes and from many communities, cultures, races, genders, and orientations in contemporary settings as well as fictional worlds."

• The (Other) F Word

  A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce

  Various Authors

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  "The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and many others in a relatable, revelatory and inspiring exploration of body…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Filter and Other Lies

  Maldonado, Crystal

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  Also currently available as an eBook and eAudiobook. // "Seventeen-year-old Kat Sanchez uses photos of a friend to create a fake Instagram account, but when one of her posts goes viral and exposes Kat's duplicity, her entire world--both real and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

  Quintero, Isabel

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  Also currently available as an eAudiobook. // "Gabi's life is a mess—her family, her friends, her attempts at a love life—but writing helps, especially since it turns out she's pretty good at poetry."

• Eat Your Heart Out

  deVos, Kelly,

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  Also currently available as an eAudiobook. // "Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

  Maldonado, Crystal

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  Also currently available as an eBook and eAudiobook. // "Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat Girl on a Plane

  deVos, Kelly

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  "From debut author Kelly DeVos comes an unforgettable story about fierce fashion, pursuing your dreams, and loving yourself at any size."

• Disability Visibility

  17 First-person Stories for Today : Adapted for Young Adults

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  "A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century."

• Dumplin'

  Murphy, Julie, 1965-

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  The first book in a trilogy. // Also currently available as an eBook and eAudiobook; y un libro electrónico en Español. // "Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat Angie

  Charlton-Trujillo, E.E.

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  "Angie is broken - by her can't-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Hiding under a mountain of junk food hasn't kept the pain (or the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like a Love Story

  Nazemian, Abdi

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  Stonewall Honor Book and A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time. // "This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds."

• My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

  Dockrill, Laura

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  Also currently available as an eAudiobook. // "Following a near-fatal asthma attack, sixteen-year-old BB, who is happy with being big, reluctantly agrees to keep a food diary, but finds it teaches her a lot about herself."

• 45 Pounds (more or Less)

  Barson, K. A.,

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  Also currently available as an eBook. // "When Ann decides that she is going to lose 45 pounds in time for her aunt's wedding, she discovers that what she looks like is not all that matters."

• Every Body Yoga

  Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body

  Stanley, Jessamyn,

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  Also currently available as an eBook. // "From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes “Every Body Yoga”, a book that breaks all the stereotypes. It's a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nice Girls Endure

  Struyk-Bonn, Christina,

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  "Sixteen-year-old Chelsea has always been overweight, and now in high school she is being unmercifully teased by other students, and even her mother gives her no support, despite her beautiful singing voice--but in film class she is assigned work on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'll Be the One

  Lee, Lyla

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  "Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media,…Read moreRead more of this annotation