weight control

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weight control

Keeping the moon

2000
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.

Pig and the shrink

1999
Seventh-grader Tucker needs to come up with a winning science fair project in a hurry, so he uses his fat friend Angelo as an experimental subject and in the process learns about more than just science.

Fat Glenda turns fourteen

1991
Fourteen-year-old Glenda, extremely unhappy after regaining the pounds she worked so hard to lose, meets the very overweight Giselle and discovers the world of plus-size modeling, but she will have to stay fat to keep working as such a model.

Bobbi Brown teenage beauty

2000
A beauty guide for teenagers that provides information on skin care, weight loss, makeup, style, and other related topics.

Dough Boy

2005
Fifteen-year-old Tristan deals with intensified criticism about his weight when the nutrition-obsessed daughter of his mother's boyfriend, Frank, moves in.

Catundra

2001
A fat cat loses weight with the help of a friendly mole.

My dog Jack is fat

2011
Carson does his best to help his dog, Jack, lose weight, with unexpected results.

100 hamburgers

the getting thin book
1972
An overweight boy goes to a doctor to find out how to become thin.

The fastest friend in the West

1990
When her best friend dumps her to be with the popular kids, overweight Lori shares an unusual but brief friendship with a homeless girl.

Coping with diet fads

1990
Discusses the health dangers involved with fad diets and provides information on healthy ways to eat.

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