Body Image and Acceptance for Young Adults
Discover empowering books on body image and acceptance for young adults. Explore relatable stories like *Fat Kid Rules the World* and *Artichoke's Heart* that tackle self-esteem, identity, and embracing who you are.
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Fat Hoochie Prom Queen
by Nico Medina
Madge Diaz and her long-time rival, student-body president Bridget Benson, make a drunken agreement that whoever is named prom queen will rule the school, and the other has to back off for good, leading to a no-holds-barred popularity contest.
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Fat Kid Rules the World
by K. L. Going
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book Troy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school dropout guitar genius, the stuff of which Lower East Side punk rock legends are made. Never mind that Troy’s dad thinks Curt’s a drug addict and Troy’s brother thinks Troy’s the biggest (literally) loser in Manhattan. Soon, Curt’s recruited Troy as his new drummer—even though Troy can’t play the drums. Together, Curt and Troy will change the world of punk, and Troy’s own life, forever. "Troy's voice is candid, irreverent, realistic and humorous. [A] wonderful, engrossing tale."—SLJ An ALA BBYA A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book A Booklist Editors' Choice An SLJ Best Book of the Year A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
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Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have
by Allen Zadoff
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Zansky, the second fattest student at his high school, joins the varsity football team to get the attention of a new girl on whom he has a crush.
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Accidental Love
by Gary Soto
The award-winning author of "Baseball in April and Other Stories" deftly captures all the angst, expectation, and humor that comes with first love in this swift, lighthearted romance.
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Artichoke's Heart
by Suzanne Supplee
While working in her mother's beauty shop where all the best town's gossip flies free, Rosemary Goode becomes determined to lose the weight that seems to be an all too common topic and starts keeping a journal to record the year-long experience in achieving her goals, her relationships with others, and her feelings about life in her tight-knit Southern community.
