Fat Angie
Charlton-Trujillo, e. E.2013
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Fat Angie's sister was captured in Iraq, she's the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything? 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 shouts of "crazy mad cow!") away. Having failed to kill herself — in front of a gym full of kids — she’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, the kind of girl who doesn’t exist in Dryfalls, Ohio. A girl who is one hundred and ninety-nine percent wow! A girl who never sees her as Fat Angie, and who knows too well that the package doesn’t always match what’s inside. With an offbeat sensibility, mean girls to rival a horror classic, and characters both outrageous and touching, this darkly comic anti-romantic romance will appeal to anyone who likes entertaining and meaningful fiction.
Main title:
Fat Angie / by e. E. Charlton-Trujillo.
Author:
Imprint:
Somerville : Massachusetts Candlewick Press, 2013.
Collation:
264 pages ; 20 cm.
Audience:
SecondaryUsually read by students in years 9, 10 and above.
Awards:
Stonewall Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (2014) ; Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Lesbian General Fiction (2014)
ISBN:
9780763661199 (hardback)9780763680190 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
16248
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Teenage Fiction | CHARLT n1 | Available |