weight control

Although at first resentful when his mother forces him onto the high school swim team to lose weight, Michael eventually gains a new self-confidence and strength of character from the experience.

An overweight girl becomes attached to a nearly blind white pony who inspires her to develop her writing talent and to tackle her biggest problem as well.

Bertie thinks that other kids will like him if he loses weight and so he drinks a special remedy which causes weightlessness, but getting thin requires other measures.

During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.

Beth expects her ten days at a "fat farm" to change her appearance and her life.

Fifteen-year-old Tucker's life changes in many ways when he meets the unusual overweight girl who gives his cat a home.

A big pink pig decides he needs to lose some weight, but after trying weight-lifting, aerobics, and jogging he comes to the realization that there is nothing wrong with a pig being fat.

Fourteen-year-old Sherman Thuff, a student at the tomato-obsessed Del Heiny Junior High, has his hopes set on being a competitive eater, but when his training regimen begins to seriously interfere with his enjoyment of life and he even starts losing his friends, he decides he should rearrange his priorities.

Examines the reasons and the consequences of being overweight, and offers advice on changing one's eating habits for the better.

Fifteen-year-old Gabby resorts to drastic measures in her struggle to lose weight but finds there is more to being grown up than being skinny.