Fat Chance, Charlie Vega (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823447176)

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 List
A POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel!
A Cosmopolitan Best New Book!
A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut!

Author: Crystal Maldonado
ISBN-10: 0823447170
ISBN-13: 9780823447176
Publisher: Holiday House
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2021
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 515866 / Fat Chance, Charlie Vega


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/14/2020
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2021
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 68
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2021
School Library Journal 02/01/2021 pg. 77
Shelf Awareness 02/12/2021