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1) Bed: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Follows the experiences of a quiet, diligent younger brother whose eccentric and tyrannical older brother takes to his bed on his twenty-fifth birthday and resolves never to leave due to his disillusionment with the adult world.
2) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A love story. It's about two people, ordinary yet extraordinary, who have always protected themselves and relied on their ability to laugh through life. Now, with the help of each other, and the Overeaters Anonymous meeting where they met, they are learning to open up and trust one another. But falling in love is no easy task, especially when surrounded by friends and family who are just a little too close, and a little too opinionated.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Eric was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After a lifetime of failed attempts, and the onset of type 2 diabetes due to his weight, Eric went to a new doctor, who surprisingly prescribed a shelter dog. And that's when Eric meet Peety: an overweight, middle-aged, and forgotten dog who, like Eric, had seen better days. The two adopted each other and began an incredible journey together, forming a bond of unconditional love that forever changed...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ralph and Sylvia Nebula and their friend Mavis Goldfarb are bitter at being sent to a bogus weight-loss camp, so they decide to escape and find a way to take revenge on those responsible for promoting the idea that thin is better.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012, 2011
Description
Wedding bells are ringing for Mike & Molly! At the end of Season One, Mike popped the question, and in Season Two, Molly's in a tizzy over the wedding plans! Not surprisingly, Mike doesn't get what all the fuss is about. His-and-her versions of wedding planning woes are at the heart of the second season.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Third season starts in Paris, where Mike and Molly are getting ready to leave their honeymoon and embark on their journey as a married couple. Adjusting to their new lives at home won't be easy, since they will be living with Molly's overindulgent sister, Victoria, and her smart-talking mother, Joyce. Sharing the already crowded house will prove challenging for the newlyweds, especially when they decide to start trying for a baby.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
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 it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
Vivian Ellenshaw is none too happy to find herself forced into a weight-loss camp's van with her ex-best friend, Allie, a meathead jock who can barely drive, and the camp owner's snobby son. When they...
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
2000, 1996
Description
"Stephen King's Thinner serves up the story of a 300-pound attorney with an inflated ego to match. A 109-year-old gypsy with a supernatural ax to grind. And a dose of deadly revenge that compels its victim to eat now ... and pay later."--Container.
10) Dear Sweet Pea
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist"--
Author
Series
Other skills I learned as a superspy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Overweight and non-athletic, twelve-year-old Hale may have been born and raised to be a spy for the Sub Rosa Society but it seems he is unlikely to become a Field Agent until his parents are captured by the evil League and Hale sets out on a solo mission to save them.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Murphy stars as shy, kind, brilliant "calorically challenged" genetics professor Sherman Klump, who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of a beautiful faculty member. His experimental fat-reducing serum creates a slimmed down alter-ego, with startling results.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In Season five, Molly has embarked on a new career as a writer. After selling her romance novel, Molly's excitement is short-lived as she now faces the pressures of deadlines, taking notes from her opinionated publisher and dealing with her own insecurities. Aside from living under the same roof as his in-laws, Mike has to ride the roller coaster of being married to a published author.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Is it possible to start afresh when you're thoroughly weighted down? A novel from the author of The Secret Language of Girls.
Seventeen pounds. That's the difference between Abigail Walker and Kristen Gorzca. Between chubby and slim, between teased and taunting. Abby is fine with her body and sick of seventeen pounds making her miserable, so she speaks out against Kristen and her groupies-and becomes officially unpopular. Embracing her new status,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In the Season Four premiere, 'Molly Unleashed, ' Molly abruptly gives up her job teaching elementary school to follow her dreams of becoming a writer. With the ever-present support of her beat-cop husband Mike and her family, Molly sets out to become the woman she was always meant to be.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
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, she is devastated.
19) Pregnant pause
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Married, pregnant, and living at a "fat camp" in Maine, sixteen-year-old Eleanor has many questions about her future, especially whether the marriage will last and if she should keep the baby.
20) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
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