Supplee, Suzanne.

Artichoke's heart / Suzanne Supplee. - 1st ed. - New York : Dutton Books, c2008. - 276 p. ; 22 cm.

School Library Journal, August 2008 Booklist, May 2008 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2008

When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.

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Overweight persons--Fiction.
Weight loss--Fiction.
Self-esteem--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
School stories.


Tennessee--Fiction.

PZ7.S96518 / Ar 2008

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