Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

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Crystal Maldonado

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

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Author

Crystal Maldonado

Pages

352

Publisher

Holiday House

Published Date

2021-02-02

ISBN

0823448908 9780823448906

Ratings

Google: 5

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"Couldn’t put it down! There were so many parts of this story where I caught myself smiling from ear to ear. Great read! "

Sara SoDeezy

"I really recommend this book. The romance was sweet, it had great messages, I liked the friendship, even the conflict. Charlie definitely needs to talk to someone though because she has so much pent up self doubt and inferiority. The mom was so terrible, like it’s on sight for me. Overall, really enjoyed the read."

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Zariah Grant

"4.5 ⭐️"

Lucy

"I totally loved this book again I really recommend!!"

Maximiliano Ornelas Garduno

"I may have rounded up the stars on this one but you almost have to. It was engaging. I did think that some of the dialogue between the teenagers was unrealistic but of course I was a very immature teenager so maybe some teenagers do talk like this :-) I think there’s so much raw and deep honest feelings and discussions in this book. It was just lovely. Charlie Vega is a character that I think most people can relate to even if just one aspect of her Experience"

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Jfly winslow

"So freaking cute"

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Courtney H

"Okay this book right here is amazing, I’ve never felt so related to a character like this. I started reading it today and I’m almost done with it. I would definitely give this book a 5 star rating, would honestly recommend. "

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Madison Jenkins

"I like this book because it really speaks on the perspective of someone who is bigger. I learned about that perspective and also because the character is a brown girl so there was more representation "

Yarency

"I loved watching Charlie and Brian fall in love🥰"