Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

An overweight teen is sure that she's the weakest link in her high-powered family - until her handsome, athletic, star-student brother has a shocking fall from grace.

Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex. She lives on the Web, snarfs junk food, and follows the Fat Girl Code of Conduct." Her stuttering best friend has just moved to Walla Walla (of all places). Her new companion, Froggy Welsh the Fourth (real name), has just succeeded in getting his hand up her shirt, and she lives in fear that he'll look underneath. Then there are the other Shreves; Mom, the successful psychologist and exercise fiend; Dad, a top executive who ogles thin women on TV; and older siblings Ana's and rugby god Byron, both of them slim and brilliant. Delete Virginia, and the Shreves would be a picture-perfect family. Or so she's convinced. And then a shocking phone call changes everything.

With irreverent humor, insight, and surprising gravity, Carolyn Mackler creates an endearingly blunt heroine whose story will speak to every teen who struggles with family expectations - and serve as a welcome reminder that the most impressive achievement is to be true to yourself.

O adolescenta supraponderala este sigura ca este cea mai slaba veriga din familia sa puternica - pana cand fratele ei frumos, atletic, student-stea, are o cadere socanta din gratie. Virginia Shreves, in varsta de 15 ani, are un corp mai mare decat media si un complex de inferioritate plus-size. Locuieste pe web, se hraneste cu mancare nedorita si respecta Codul de conduita al Fat Girl. „Cea mai buna prietena balbaita tocmai s-a mutat in Walla Walla (din toate locurile).