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by: Leslea Newman
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780698114067
ISBN: 069811406X
Label: Putnam Juvenile
Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: August 08, 1996
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 488506
Studio: Putnam Juvenile
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Rating:  - Touching and True!
Fat Chance is an amazingly true, honest, and heart-warming book. Leslea Newman does an awesome job on capturing the emotions and pressures of teenage girls. This book's main character is Judi Leibowitz. Judi has three goals. 1) To decide what she wants to be when she grows up. 2) To get a boyfriend. 3) To loose some weight and become "skinny". Judi thinks that everything is going great when she becomes friends with the prettiest, skinniest, and most popular girl in school, Nancy Pratt. But she soon ... Read More
Rating:  - Couldn't put the book down....
This book kept my attention & I kept reading on to find out what would happen next. It makes you realize what some teen girls are going through in their lives right now. Every teen girl should read this story because it teaches you some good lessons.
Rating: - Fat Chance
Fat Chance by Leslea Newman
Life in middle school is already tough enough when you are an unsatisfied American teen like the main character Judy. Although the constant comments made by Tommy Aristo, a mom who won't even let you wear makeup, and growing up being the "fat girl" in the class doesn't make it much easier. So when Mrs. Roth the English teacher assigns the class to write in a journal periodically, Judy comes up with three goals in life that will supposedly solve all her problems: ... Read More
Rating:  - Not my favorite...
This book is about a teenaged girl named Judi who develops bulimia while dealing with her extreme insecurities about her body and herself. Over the course of a few months, Judi realizes that another girl in her school, Nancy, is also sufferring from an eating disorder. After realizing that they have the same problem, Judi begins to emulate Nancy's behavior, and even "cover" for her while she throws up her lunch in the school bathroom.
Although the idea of this novel intrigued me, I didn't find ... Read More
Rating: - Unbelievably unrealistic
I read this book at Border's one day, and I liked it at first, but then I realized the book was extremely unrealistic. The soft ending is just stupid because the girl's problems are solved too easily. And how can someone who is bulimic just stop shoving a finger down her throat? I have never experienced eating disorders, but this book doesn't seem like anything that could happen in real life to a real person because it lacks to portray someone who is actually bulimic. That's my opinion.
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