Life in the Fat Lane

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Summary: Great
Review: Great great great book! I personally am skinny and didnt know how anything like in this book could happen. Or change so fast. Everything slips apart from her but does it all really? She finds her true self (in a way) through self denile.

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Summary: I loved this book!This is a page-turner and great read!
Review: Lara Ardeche has the world at her feet-perfect body,perfect home,awesome boyfriend,and is THE most popular girl in school.
Until....she wakes up to find that she has a metabolic disorder that doubles her size.Lost and alone,Lara and her family,who is now slowly breaking apart,move to Michigan where no one knows her and she is now the new fat girl.There,she makes new friends,learns to slowly start healing,and finds out that being thin......isn't everything.

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Summary: A Must Read: "Life in the Fat Lane"
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book because it really helped me gain knowledge of all the different aspects of the affect of weight on teens in sub-society groups or cliques. It really is a must read for girls struggling with weight gain or loss.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I loved this book. I thought it was so great because these are the types of things that happen to teenagers. One simple fault and your gone! Amazing book. It kept me on the edge the whole time.

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Summary: Really good
Review: Lara is popular, pretty and thin. She just won prom queen and she has a gorgeous boyfriend. Suddenly she starts getting chubby, and no matter how much excersise she does, and how little she eats, she still gains weight. As Lara begins to get fatter and fatter, she finds out that she has a metabolic disease that causes her to gain weight. She loses her popular and pretty friends, and even her boyfriend. It's really sad to see this girl's life ruined because of something she can't control, but in the end, it gets just a little bit happier, just enough to let you know that Lara's gonna be ok. This book is really good. I definetely reccomend it!

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Summary: Life in the Fat Lane
Review: This book is great!! It has a great moral that involves teens and the struggle to be perfect. People are not perfect, and lara figured that out. It is a realistic and fablous story. Read this book

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Summary: No one's perfect
Review: The plot of this book was very interesting. Although it would probably only intrest girls. The plot definintly moves along consistently.There is one problem after another! The most fascinating moments are when she's gaining pounds at a rapid pace. Other fascinating moments are when her family's falling apart because her dads cheating on his wife, and when she waits for her overweight test results. Her life changes completely when she becomes overweight. It's awful to see that some people only care about your appearence.

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Summary: Life in the Fat Lane
Review: I liked the book Life in the Fat Lane by Cherie Bennett. I thought the plot was a fast moving book. You can really relate to the characters because it takes place aat a High school. The main character was a homecomming queen and the most popular girl in the school. I thought her friends were kind of corney because I don't think that they seemed real. In the book the protagonist was fighting her self and her weight... People who wern't in her clain she did not treat well. I think I would rate this two thumbs up. This book was a take-it-werever-you-go-book. Read it!

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Summary: Great Book! Read the review by Anna Weiser-Woodward
Review: Life in the Fat Lane, by Cherie Bennet is a story to open your eyes to different point of views, and what it's like to be pitied. Lara has little time between her family and friends, but discovers she has a rare diseas where you gain weight rapidly, even if you eat nothing. The plot moves along smoothly, although Lara's life does not.

I'd give this book two thumbs up. It is a great example of how body image influences everyone. I must say it is easy to relate too, even if you aren't fat. It's a perfect insight of what life is like in the fat lane.

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Summary: Lara gets a matabolism disorder...blah...blah...blah!
Review: Boring, boring, and more boring! Life in the Fat Lane was just plain boring! There wasn't a plot at all. It had mostly to do with one main character, Lara. The book was based on her internal feelings about her matabolism disorder and her drastic change in weight. That's pretty much the whole book.

The story moved along consistently, but at the same time lagged. It was too long. I think they should have made it about 100 pages shorter and not dragged on so much on what Lara's problems were with her best friend Molly, her boyfriend Jett, her family, and everyone at school. You don't have to tell us 400 times that Lara's having social issues! We got it the first time.

In my opinion, the worst trait of Lara is her taking so long to realize that there was nothing she could do about her weight change, and to stop caring what her mother, father, boyfriend, best friend, and everyone else thought of her!

I didn't like Lara at all. She just annoyed me and was a little too...cheerleader perky who cares about what everyone else thinks of her. Get over it! You can't change any thing!

If I were to rate this book between a one and a ten, I would rate it a five. It was one of those books that at some parts you were saying, "ugh, why am I wasting my time reading such a boring book?" and at other times you were saying "I wish I didn't have to put this book down." It's a little hard to explain. I would have enjoyed it a lot more though if it was shorter. If you're looking for a good book...maybe you should pick a different one. There are many other good books out there you could read. So if you're asking me, Life in the Fat Lane was as boring as watching golf on T.V.