Fat Angie

By E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Book Overview

Winner of a 2014 Stonewall Book Award Her 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763661198
• ISBN13: 9780763661199
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher