Life in the Fat Lane (Books for Young Readers) | 
 enlarge | Author: Cherie Bennett
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  161 reviews
Sales Rank: 38822
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0440220297
EAN: 9780440220299
ASIN: 0440220297
Publication Date: July 13, 1999
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Condition: cover slightly worn/bent,pages slightly marked,pages bent ACCEPTABLE. Readable but with wear to cover and binding (intact). May contain notes and highlighting or aging paper tanning. We support occupational training for young adults transitioning from state care to independent living.
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Product Description
Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet.Until she gets fat.
Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp.She's desperate to get her to-die-for body back--and to find an explanation for her rapid weight gain.
When she's diagnosed with a mysterious metabolic disorder that has no known cure, Lara fears she'll spend the rest of her life trapped in a fat suit.Who will stand by her?Her image-conscious family?Her shallow friends?Her handsome boyfriend?Or will she be left alone in the land of the fat girls?
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 amazing April 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book is about a girl who has it all and thinks here life is pefect. she is popular, thin, and beautiful. then she stars gaining weight and finds out who her real friends are and her whole life becomes a so real. she finds out what it is like to be the fat kid and the loser. she gets made fun of and gets depressed but then becomes happy with her new self.
(she has a weight gaining disorder she is not just stuffing her face )
jordan February 22, 2007
i loved this book.it sends a great message to teens all over because she used to be a gorgeousejunior.She then finds out she has a disease called axel crown witch makes her gain alot of weight.she finds out that her true friends will stick with her no matter what!its doesnt matter how fat or skinney you are because the poeple who love you only care whats on the inside
life in the fat lane February 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i loved this book.its sending a message to teens that your real friends will stick with you know mater how fat or skinney you are.In this book a perfect,popular junior gets a disease were she gains and gains weight no matter how hard she works out or how much she stops eating.she finds out that her real friends will stick ith her no matter what happens
 A Nasty, yet Realistic, Protagonist February 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Lara's life is perfect. She has everything going for her: she is one of the most popular girls in school, she is beautiful, she has a wonderful boyfriend and her family is great. Even though she is in high school, her father still calls her his princess and tells her all the time how beautiful she is. Her mother is thin and beautiful, too, and supports Lara as she enters and wins beauty pageants.
The best night of Lara's life is the night she wins the title of Homecoming Queen as a junior. She has officially been voted by her peers the most beautiful and the most popular girl in school. The only thing that makes this night slightly less than perfect is the fact that she tries to help Patty, the fattest girl in school, by offering to exercise with her to help her lose weight. Patty insults her and rejects her offer. Lara thinks to herself that Patty, like all fat people, is just too lazy to make any effort to lose the weight.
Soon after homecoming, something awful begins to happen to Lara. She starts to gain weight. At first it's just a few pounds she thinks she can diet and exercise off. But then it's more and more. The more Lara diets and exercises, the more weight she gains. Her mother and father don't believe she is trying to lose the weight. Her father tells her she needs to have more willpower, and he stops calling her princess. Lara's popularity is disappearing fast, and she can't do anything about it. How will she adjust to her new life as a fat girl?
I liked the honest treatment of Lara toward the end of the book, when she has gained a bunch of weight. The author didn't romanticize or try to make it seem like things were still the same for Lara. Her entire life and all of her happiness was wrapped up in being pretty, so it was reasonable to me that she would struggle a great deal to redefine herself. Although I didn't like the character of Lara, I thought the way she reacted was the way most teens in her situation would. Just because she gained weight, it wouldn't necessarily mean she equated herself with others who were overweight. A prejudice as deep as hers and as accepted in society as hers, would take a great deal of time to dissipate. It would have seemed unrealistic to me if Lara's perceptions of beauty and worth were radically changed by the end of the book.
I Read It Three Times December 30, 2006
I juat loved this book so much, maybe because I am a girl likw Lara who isn't always perfect and who definitely has had to deal with some changes to my body that I had nothing to do with. My parents are very tall, and when I turned thirteen at the beginning of last year I just started to grow and grow. I don't think that the author wants everyone to feel sorry for Lara, or even to like her all the time. There were definitely times she was a jerk and mean, and definitely times she felt sorry for herself. But reading this book made me grow a lot, and I think it will do the same for any girl. It is a hard book to put down, and I got new stuff from it each time I read it. At the end of the book Lara has an important understanding, and her having this understanding helped me to understand life better, too. This is a great book.
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