Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

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Crystal Maldonado

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.A NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD WINNER!Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns one thing--he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her?Because it's time people did.A sensitive, funny, and painfully honest coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves.An NPR Best Book of the Year!Named to the TAYSHAS Reading ListA POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel!A Cosmopolitan Best New Book!A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut!

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Author

Crystal Maldonado

Pages

352

Publisher

Holiday House

Published Date

2021-02-02

ISBN

0823448908 9780823448906

Ratings

Google: 5

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"I really recommend this book. The romance was sweet, it had great messages, I liked the friendship, even the conflict. Charlie definitely needs to talk to someone though because she has so much pent up self doubt and inferiority. The mom was so terrible, like it’s on sight for me. Overall, really enjoyed the read."

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Zariah Grant

"Couldn’t put it down! There were so many parts of this story where I caught myself smiling from ear to ear. Great read! "

Sara SoDeezy

"I totally loved this book again I really recommend!!"

Maximiliano Ornelas Garduno

"I like this book because it really speaks on the perspective of someone who is bigger. I learned about that perspective and also because the character is a brown girl so there was more representation "

Yarency

"Okay this book right here is amazing, I’ve never felt so related to a character like this. I started reading it today and I’m almost done with it. I would definitely give this book a 5 star rating, would honestly recommend. "

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Madison Jenkins

"AMAzing"

Amanda Fernandez

"As a Latina who has always been a bit bigger than my peers this book made me feel seen! Some of the struggles for societal pressures, family dynamics, and self doubt this book made me feel like a high schooler again. Cannot recommend enough! #latinx #hispanic_american "