RECOMMENDED READS EVERY BODY SHINES : SIXTEEN STORIES ABOUT LIVING FABULOUSLY FAT
I'LL BE THE ONE Lyla Lee Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star. Sparks that soon fly with her fellow competitor, Henry Cho. Skye has her sights on becoming the world's first plussized K-pop star, and that means winning the competition, without losing herself.
HOW MOON FUENTEZ FELL IN LOVE WITH THE UNIVERSE
edited by Cassandra Newbould Sixteen stories celebrating fat teens with bodies of many shapes and from many communities, cultures, races, genders, and orientations in contemporary settings as well as fictional worlds.
FAT CHANCE, CHARLIE VEGA Crystal Maldonado Charlie Vega is smart, funny, artistic, ambitious. And fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. 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 her (popular) best friend out first.
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Moon Fuentez accepts her fate as the ugly, unwanted sister. When she takes a job as a "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers (including her twin sister), Moon questions her destiny as the unnoticed, unloved wallflower she always thought she was.
GIRLS LIKE ME
DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY
Lola StVil
Adib Khorram
Fifteen-year-old Shay is trying to cope with being overweight and getting bullied in school, but when she falls in love with mysterious Blake, insecure Shay needs the help of her two best friends to make love prevail.
Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes.