Putting makeup on the fat boy
About this book
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Subjects
- artists, fiction
- children's fiction
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- cosmetics
- families
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- high schools
- hispanic americans
- hispanic americans, fiction
- homosexuality
- homosexuality, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- lambda literary awards
- lambda literary award winner
- lgbtq young adult
- makeup artists
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- schools
- schools, fiction
- single-parent families
- single-parent families, fiction
- stonewall book awards
- young adult fiction / family / siblings
- young adult fiction / lgbt
- young adult fiction / people & places / united states / hispanic & latino