The earth, my butt, and other big, round things

Description:

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.

subjects: Weight control,  Family problems,  Fiction,  Self-perception,  High schools,  Assertiveness (Psychology),  Schools,  Juvenile fiction,  Children's fiction,  Self-perception, fiction,  Assertiveness (psychology), fiction,  Weight control, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  American fiction,  Dysfunctional families,  Weight loss,  Teenage girls,  School stories,  Weibliche Jugend,  Übergewicht,  Selbstwertgefühl,  Girls, fiction,  United states, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Overweight persons,  Families

Places: New York (N.Y.),  NY New York