Fat Angie (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763661199)

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.

Author: E. E. Charlton-Trujillo
ISBN-10: 0763661198
ISBN-13: 9780763661199
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2013
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 169754 / Fat Angie

Award: Stonewall Book Award - Winner
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/14/2013 pg. 63
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2013
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2013 pg. 372
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2013 - Recommended - Readable
School Library Journal 05/01/2013 pg. 100
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2013 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw