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Book cover of 2ND LIFE OF ABIGAIL WALKER
2ND LIFE OF ABIGAIL WALKER
By: frances dowell | Published: August 2012

Is it possible to start afresh when you’re thoroughly weighted down? Seventeen pounds. That’s the difference between Abigail Walker...

Is it possible to start afresh when you’re thoroughly weighted down? Seventeen pounds. That’s the difference between Abigail Walker and Kristen Gorzca. Between chubby and slim, between teased and taunting. Abby is fine with her body and sick of seventeen pounds making her miserable, so she speaks out against Kristen and her groupies—and becomes officially unpopular. Embracing her new status, Abby heads to an abandoned lot across the street and crosses an unfamiliar stream that leads her to a boy who’s as different as they come. Anders is homeschooled, and while he’s worried that Abby’s former friends are out to get her, he’s even more worried about his dad, a war veteran home from Iraq who is dangerously disillusioned with life. But if his dad can finish his poem about the expedition of Lewis and Clark, if he can effectively imagine what it is to experience freshness and innocence, maybe he will be okay. As Abby dives into the unexpected role as research assistant, she just as unexpectedly discovers that by helping someone else find hope in the world, there is plenty there for herself, as well.

Theme: Body Image

  • ISBN
    9781442405936
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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Book cover of ABIGAIL THE WHALE
ABIGAIL THE WHALE
By: davide cali | Published: September 2016

Abigail dreads swimming lessons. Every time she dives into the pool, she makes a big splash, and all the girls in her class shout:...

Abigail dreads swimming lessons. Every time she dives into the pool, she makes a big splash, and all the girls in her class shout: “Abigail’s a whale!” Abigail can see that she is larger than the other girls. She feels huge, heavy, and out of place. Abigail’s swimming teacher takes her aside and points out: we can change how we see ourselves. He offers a creative visualization technique she can use to feel bolder, more confident, and more accepting of herself. Abigail tries it out in challenging situations that week—walking home in the dark, eating her vegetables, trying to fall asleep. Illustrations in the book show her perspective morphing powerfully to match her new thought patterns. Next time she’s in swimming class, instead of feeling heavy, Abigail thinks sardine, eel, barracuda, shark! She starts to figure out how to draw on mindfulness, creative thinking, resilience, and positive self-esteem to embrace exactly who she is. This picture book supports social/emotional learning and serves as a perfect jumping-off point for topics like bullying, empathy, confidence, and creative problem solving.

Theme: Body Image

  • ISBN
    9781771471985
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Picture Book
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$18.95
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Book cover of AGE 16
AGE 16
By: rosena fung | Published: May 2024

A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race,...

A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race, beauty, size, and worth, for fans of Mariko Tamaki. Sixteen-year-old Roz is preoccupied with normal teenage stuff: navigating high school friendships, worrying about college, and figuring out what to wear to prom. When her estranged Por Por abruptly arrives for a seemingly indefinite visit, the already delicate relationship between Roz and her mother is upended. With three generations under one roof, conflicts inevitably arise and long suppressed family secrets rise to the surface. Told in alternating perspectives, Age 16 shifts seamlessly between time and place, exploring how this pivotal year in adolescence affects three women in the same family, from Guangdong in 1954 to Hong Kong in 1972, and Toronto in 2000. Award-winning creator of Living with Viola Rosena Fung pulls from her own family history in her YA debut to give us an emotional and poignant story about how every generation is affected by those that came before and affect those that come after.

Theme: Eating Disorder, Body Image, Asian Heritage

  • ISBN
    9781773218335
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Graphic Novel Teen
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Book cover of AGE 16
AGE 16
By: rosena fung | Published: May 2024

A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race,...

A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race, beauty, size, and worth, for fans of Mariko Tamaki. Sixteen-year-old Roz is preoccupied with normal teenage stuff: navigating high school friendships, worrying about college, and figuring out what to wear to prom. When her estranged Por Por abruptly arrives for a seemingly indefinite visit, the already delicate relationship between Roz and her mother is upended. With three generations under one roof, conflicts inevitably arise and long suppressed family secrets rise to the surface. Told in alternating perspectives, Age 16 shifts seamlessly between time and place, exploring how this pivotal year in adolescence affects three women in the same family, from Guangdong in 1954 to Hong Kong in 1972, and Toronto in 2000. Award-winning creator of Living with Viola Rosena Fung pulls from her own family history in her YA debut to give us an emotional and poignant story about how every generation is affected by those that came before and affect those that come after.

Theme: Asian Heritage, Body Image, Eating Disorder

  • ISBN
    9781773218342
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Graphic Novel Teen
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Book cover of ALL OF ME
ALL OF ME
By: chris baron | Published: June 2020

A middle-grade debut novel in verse from Chris Baron about a boy struggling with body image and weight. "Beautifully written, brilliant, and...

A middle-grade debut novel in verse from Chris Baron about a boy struggling with body image and weight. "Beautifully written, brilliant, and necessary." --Matt de la Pena, Newbery Medalist on All of Me Ari has body-image issues. After a move across the country, his parents work selling and promoting his mother's paintings and sculptures. Ari's bohemian mother needs space to create, and his father is gone for long stretches of time on "sales" trips. Meanwhile, Ari makes new friends: Pick, the gamer; the artsy Jorge, and the troubled Lisa. He is also relentlessly bullied because he's overweight, but he can't tell his parents—they're simply not around enough to listen. After an upsetting incident, Ari's mom suggests he go on a diet, and she gives him a book to help. But the book—and the diet—can’t fix everything. As Ari faces the demise of his parents' marriage, he also feels himself changing, both emotionally and physically. Here is a much-needed story about accepting the imperfect in oneself and in life.

Theme: Body Image

  • ISBN
    9781250250599
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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Book cover of ARTICHOKE'S HEART
ARTICHOKE'S HEART
By: suzanne supplee | Published: May 2009

While working in her mother's beauty shop where all the best town's gossip flies free, Rosemary Goode becomes determined to lose the weight that...

While working in her mother's beauty shop where all the best town's gossip flies free, Rosemary Goode becomes determined to lose the weight that seems to be an all too common topic and starts keeping a journal to record the year-long experience in achieving her goals, her relationships with others, and her feelings about life in her tight-knit Southern community. Reprint.

Theme: Body Image, Humour, Contemporary

  • ISBN
    9780142414279
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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$9.99
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Book cover of BESTIES 02 FIND THEIR GROOVE
BESTIES 02 FIND THEIR GROOVE
By: kayla miller | Published: September 2022

Theme: Friendship, Family Relationships, Body Image, BIPOC , Diversity

  • ISBN
    9780358521167
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Graphic Novel Children's
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Book cover of BESTIES FIND THEIR GROOVE
BESTIES FIND THEIR GROOVE
By: kayla miller | Published: September 2022

With their first formal school dance around the corner, Beth and Chanda are on a mission to make it the best night ever. Step one? Secure the perfect...

With their first formal school dance around the corner, Beth and Chanda are on a mission to make it the best night ever. Step one? Secure the perfect dresses so they can dominate the dance floor! But when neither of them can find an outfit that lives up to their high expectations--and when they encounter unexpected pressure to find dates--these besties will need to lean on their friendship more than ever if they hope to find their groove and bust a move!

Theme: Friendship, Diversity, BIPOC , Friendship, Body Image

  • ISBN
    9780358561927
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Graphic Novel Children's
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Book cover of BIG
BIG
By: vashti harrison | Published: May 2023

A young girl, teased by her peers and berated by adults over her size, struggles with her self-image at school and at her ballet classes, where she...

A young girl, teased by her peers and berated by adults over her size, struggles with her self-image at school and at her ballet classes, where she once felt joyous and free. After the pain becomes too much to bear, she vows to make more space for herself and think more kindly of her body, regardless of its size.

Theme: BIPOC , Self-Esteem, Bullying issues, Body Image, Body-Positive

  • ISBN
    9780316353229
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Picture Book
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Book cover of BIG BONED
BIG BONED
By: jo watson | Published: September 2021

Theme: Body Image

  • ISBN
    9781989365298
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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BIG BONED
By: jo watson | Published: October 2022

Theme: Body Image

  • ISBN
    9781990259531
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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Book cover of BORN A GIRL - IT TAKES COURAGE
BORN A GIRL - IT TAKES COURAGE
By: alice dussutour | Published: March 2024

Meet Kaneila, Jade, Mahnoosh, Makena and Luisa. They are five girls in five different countries whose lives are overshadowed by violence and...

Meet Kaneila, Jade, Mahnoosh, Makena and Luisa. They are five girls in five different countries whose lives are overshadowed by violence and injustice, just because they are female. These girls navigate the challenges and horrors of period poverty, female genital mutilation, lack of access to education, body shaming and femicide. The stories are heartbreaking but also inspiring, as the girls are surrounded by people who bring hope and speak out for equality. Following each story is a section that explains the real-life circumstances for girls in many parts of the world, important terms, and what girls and women are doing to take action today. For these girls, their individual experiences of being born a girl may be different, but their desire for freedom and equality is universal.

Theme: Feminism, Menstruation & Puberty, Gender Identity, Body-Positive, Body Image

  • ISBN
    9781459838987
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    High School - Social Studies
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Book cover of CHUNKY
CHUNKY
By: yehudi mercado | Published: June 2021

Theme: Body Image, Hispanic

  • ISBN
    9780062972781
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Graphic Novel Children's
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Book cover of DEAR SWEET PEA
DEAR SWEET PEA
By: julie murphy | Published: October 2019

Patricia “Sweet Pea” DiMarco wasn’t sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined...

Patricia “Sweet Pea” DiMarco wasn’t sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the “brilliant” idea of living in nearly identical houses on the same street. In the one house between them lives their eccentric neighbor Miss Flora Mae, the famed local advice columnist behind “Miss Flora Mae I?” Dividing her time between two homes is not easy. And it doesn’t help that at school, Sweet Pea is now sitting right next to her ex–best friend, Kiera, a daily reminder of the friendship that once was. Things might be unbearable if Sweet Pea didn’t have Oscar—her new best friend—and her fifteen-pound cat, Cheese. Then one day Flora leaves for a trip and asks Sweet Pea to forward her the letters for the column. And Sweet Pea happens to recognize the handwriting on one of the envelopes. What she decides to do with that letter sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of Sweet Pea DiMarco, her family, and many of the readers of “Miss Flora Mae I?”

Theme: Body Image, LGBTQ2S+

  • ISBN
    9780062473073
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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Book cover of DEAR SWEET PEA
DEAR SWEET PEA
By: julie murphy | Published: February 2021

Patricia "Sweet Pea" DiMarco wasn't sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that...

Patricia "Sweet Pea" DiMarco wasn't sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the "brilliant" idea of living in nearly identical houses on the same street. In the one house between them lives their eccentric neighbor Miss Flora Mae, the famed local advice columnist behind "Miss Flora Mae I?" Dividing her time between two homes is not easy. And it doesn't help that at school, Sweet Pea is now sitting right next to her ex-best friend, Kiera, a daily reminder of the friendship that once was. Things might be unbearable if Sweet Pea didn't have Oscar--her new best friend--and her fifteen-pound cat, Cheese. Then one day Flora leaves for a trip and asks Sweet Pea to forward her the letters for the column. And Sweet Pea happens to recognize the handwriting on one of the envelopes. What she decides to do with that letter sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of Sweet Pea DiMarco, her family, and many of the readers of "Miss Flora Mae I?"

Theme: LGBTQ2S+, Family Relationships, Divorce, Friendship, Bullying issues, Body Image

  • ISBN
    9780062473080
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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