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Maldonado, Crystal,

Fat chance, Charlie Vega / Crystal Maldonado. - First edition. - New York : Holiday House, [2021] - 343 pages ; 22 cm

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? UGHHH. Everything is now officially a MESS. A sensitive, funny, and painful 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.

Ages 14 and up. Holiday House. Grades 10-12. Holiday House.

ISBN: 9780823447176 0823447170

LCCN: 2020015942

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC113740 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020095332 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Self-esteem in adolescence--Fiction.
Best friends--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Overweight persons--Fiction.
Dating (Social customs)--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Connecticut--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Young adult literature.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.1.M346954 / Fat 2021 PS3613.A435 / F38 2021

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]