Fat chance, Charlie Vega / Crystal Maldonado.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780823447176
- ISBN: 0823447170
- ISBN: 9780823451319
- ISBN: 0823451313
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 14 and up. Holiday House. Grades 10-12. Holiday House. |
Awards Note: | Massachusetts Book Awards Must-Read Book (Middle Grade/Young Adult), 2022 |
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Genre: | Young adult literature. Fictional Work Young adult fiction. Fiction. Novels. Romans. |
Available copies
- 34 of 34 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 34 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | YA MALDONA (Text) | 33750000094392 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | YA FIC Mal (Text) | 33160155060257 | Young Adult New Material | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | TEEN MALDONADO (Text) | 34030148188862 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | TEEN F/MALDONADO (Text) | 34029146687792 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | YA MALDONADO (Text) | 34000151226065 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | YA FIC MAL (Text) | 34014147259742 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | YA MAL (Text) | 34046148600300 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
East Side Branch - Bridgeport | YA MALDONADO (Text) | 34000148018757 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | YA MALDONADO, CRYSTAL (Text) | 37777119030724 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | YA MALDONADO (Text) | 31953145358977 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
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Summary
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. A NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD WINNER! 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. An NPR Best Book of the Year! A POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel! A Cosmopolitan Best New Book! A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut!