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Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

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by Crystal Maldonado
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Availability:In StockContributor:Crystal MaldonadoAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2022-01-11Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823451319ISBN-10:823451313UPC:9780823451319Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Coming of Age, Girls & WomenBook Topic:Dating & SexSize:8.70 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC0HM3CHS0
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.

A NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD WINNER!

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?

Because it's time people did.

A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves.

An NPR Best Book of the Year!
Named to the TAYSHAS Reading List
A POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel!
A Cosmopolitan Best New Book!
A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut!
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holiday HouseISBN-13:9780823451319ISBN-10:823451313UPC:9780823451319Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Coming of Age, Girls & WomenBook Topic:Dating & SexSize:8.70 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC0HM3CHS0
Crystal Maldonado is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. Her debut novel, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, is a New England Book Award winner, a Cosmopolitan Best New Book, and a POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel. Her next novel, No Filter and Other Lies, explores teenage life in the social media age--and the lies we tell to ourselves and others. By day, Crystal works in higher ed marketing, and by night, is a writer who loves Beyoncé, shopping, spending too much time on her phone, and being extra. Her work has also been published in Latina, BuzzFeed, and the Hartford Courant. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog. Find her everywhere @crystalwrote or CrystalWrote.com.
Publisher: Holiday House

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