Bibliograph

Fat chance, Charlie Vega, Crystal Maldonado

Type

Label

Fat chance, Charlie Vega, Crystal Maldonado

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Ages 14 and up, Holiday HouseGrades 10-12, Holiday House

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Fat chance, Charlie Vega

Responsibility statement

Crystal Maldonado

Summary

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?

Target audience

adolescent

Creator