The earth, my butt, and other big, round things

About this book

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.

Subjects

• american fiction
• assertiveness (psychology)
• assertiveness (psychology), fiction
• children's fiction
• dysfunctional families
• families
• family life, fiction
• family problems
• fiction
• girls, fiction
• high schools
• juvenile fiction
• new york (n.y.), fiction
• overweight persons
• schools
• schools, fiction
• school stories
• selbstwertgefühl
• self-perception
• self-perception, fiction
• teenage girls
• übergewicht
• united states, fiction
• weibliche jugend
• weight control
• weight control, fiction
• weight loss