Fat Chance by Leslea Newman

 Judi Leibowitz is miserable because she thinks she's truly, truly fat, in this contemporary center theoretical photo album. At age thirteen, she's 5'4" and weighs 127 pounds, following Seventeen Magazine says she should weigh 120 pounds. No admiration her vibrancy sucks and she doesn't have a boyfriend. If single-handedly she could see taking into consideration Nancy Pratt, all skinny and tan and blonde. Everyone knows guys only following skinny girls.

Judi's English literary, Mrs. Roth, gives notebooks to her students and asks them to retain a diary every one of one of semester. Mrs. Roth is cunning and suitable, but she's REALLY FAT. Judi wonders who ever wanted to marry her--she doesn't even follow Seventeen magazine's tips for fat girls, subsequently than lonesome wear dark clothes.

Every chapter is an door in Judi's diary, as she thinks roughly what handy of career she'd then to have, tries to attain dreamboat Richard Weiss to declaration her, and most of every struggles to stick to a diet. No event how hard she tries, she ends happening overeating and the weight won't come off.

But furthermore she learns skinny Nancy Pratt's unexceptional to staying skinny. Judi overhears her throwing going on in the scholastic bathroom and they mass less in the works talking. At first behind Nancy explains how she makes herself vomit, Judi thinks it's terrifying. A few days unapproachable, though, behind than Judi's mom insists that she eat her collective dinner, she decides to attempt Nancy's trick. Now she has a shadowy weapon.

But the ordinary weapon turns out to be a two-edged sword.

This baby book for center schoolers is an funny and heartfelt see at a huge subject. Judi's voice is valid and girls will relate easily to her. The diary format (usually not a favorite of mine) works really adeptly here and readers are shown some of the dangers of bulimia.

When I was reading this book, I felt subsequently than it could have been my diary (except for the throwing taking place) and not just at age thirteen. We alive in a action where the loudest voices (movies, TV, magazines) state girls and women that our single-handedly value is our looks and that we should be ultra-skinny.  One online article, citing several studies, states that the number one take goal for girls ages 11 to 17 is to be thinner and girls as teenage as five have expressed fears of getting fat.

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The author, Leslea Newman, has struggled subsequently than body-image issues herself, and she edited a gathering of women's writings more or less food called "Eating Our Hearts Out." She was inspired to write "Fat Chance" after reading approximately a girl who had died and left astern a journal filled once her bring to moving picture approximately food and weight.