Cooner, Donna Skinny, 272 pgs. Point (Scholastic), 2012, $17.99. Language: (3 swears 0 “f’) Mature Content: PG; Violence: G. Ever is 15 and weighs over 300 pounds. She is the joke of almost everyone in her High School including her 2 stepsisters. There’s a voice in her head named Skinny who is the worst bully of all, always telling Ever negative things and what “other people” are thinking. Despite her efforts to lose weight, she is stuck in a cycle of lose a few gain a lot, so Ever decides to get gastric bypass surgery. She hopes it will change her life, her dad hopes it will save it. This novel addresses morbid obesity and its social and health problems without much graphic detail. The characters, while predictable, feel genuine. I would recommend this novel to a middle school library even though the characters are high school because the novel is free from High School issues. MS, HS - ADVISABLE. Reviewer: Lisa Media Specialist
These people went out like champs.
A selection of macabre reading recommendations perfect for curling up with as the veil thins.
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If nothing is certain but death and taxes, you may as well have a good laugh while you can. Avery Monsen and Jory John have created a depressingly funny book about friends and death (but no taxes). From the dinosaur and the dodo who mourn that all their friends are dead to the sock whose […]
Everything is not always as it seems.
Prepare yourself for even more mischief than before with this gorgeously gothic series! Malice Morbid Malign isn't like the rest of her family. But when her younger sister Antipathy-Rose finds a sphere of solid Amber in one of the forbidden swag rooms at Malignant House, and bites right through it, she unwittingly unleashes a world of trouble. Trapped within the Amber sphere is Maniacal Malign's time-stopping pocket watch. Maniacal Malign had been in exile for several centuries but the moment Antipathy-Rose's gnashers crack the Amber, he is summoned back to monstrous action. Malice, Uncle Vex and Seth find themselves on a time-sensitive mission, as they race to retrieve the pocket watch, whilst unravelling Maniacal's malevolent mischief along the way. The perfect next read for Amelia Fang fans. An ideal gift for readers for Halloween and beyond. This funny, warm-hearted, spooky series - stunningly illustrated by Hannah Peck, and beautifully packaged - will delight and enchant middle-grade readers aged 8+.
