overweight persons

During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year old Toby and his friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.

Already lacking in self-confidence, overweight Pat enters her first horse show and sees a beautiful girl on a beautiful horse entered in her competition.

Myrtle has trouble adjusting to college life, until she discovers a new sense of self and a different kind of beauty through her painting.

Angie, a sixteen-year-old from a working-class suburb of St. Louis, struggles with her weight, her sexuality, the arrival of her mother's boyfriend in her home, and, especially, the hostility of the jocks and popular girls at her school after her short-lived friendship with the school's prettiest girl--who is anorexic and trying to hide it--ends badly.

Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.

Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, describe how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate.

When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.

Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.