Life in the Fat Lane

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Summary: Life in the Fat Lane
Review: I realy enjoyed reading this book. It realy made you think about how life for some people can change so dramatically that there whole life is looked at differently by other people just because of there outside appearence.Lara, the main character in the book went from being the most popular girl in her school and homecomming queen to being a nobody from the tremendous weight gain of a very rare desieas which changed her emotionaly, physically and mentally.This book and Lara's character helped me personally to try and be nice to all kinds of people no matter what they look like or who they hang with because you never know what that person goes through on a daily basis. It also makes me realize how good it is to have a best friend for rough times. I recomend this book for any teen girl it will keep you interested and it teaches you a life lesson.(TWO THUMDS UP!!!)

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Summary: a Good bood to read
Review: In the Fat Lane was a good book. It was a very interesting

book. Lara had everything she had the popularity and she was

homecoming queen too. But everything changed when she gained weight

This book is very good it teaches u about changes people can go

through. So read this book

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Summary: A girl once skinny turns fat
Review: I liked the book a lot. I like how a girl that makes fun of another overweight girl gets her life turned around and becomes fat like the girl that she was making fun of. She goes through many dietary programs and she still cannot find a way to lose weight. She stops everything including piano lessons. She loses her boyfriend and most of her friends turn against her because they are "perfect" and they don't want to hang out with someone fat. (...) i would reccomend this book to anyone it is a good book about lessons and never making fun of people that are fat!

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Summary: ..what a great book..
Review: This is a great book for we teens. It shows us all the problems that we have, even the ones we don't see. We should open our eyes, we all have problems...

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Summary: Fat or Dead
Review: "What would rather be fat or dead".
The main charactor of my book (Life in the fat lane)is asked that quetion.Of corse for a regular beaty queen response, she picked dead.

This book is abut a girl , a girl who encounters alot of problems with her weight, when she finds out shs has a disease.
Lara Ardeched is from Tennessee. she has a good family and good friends.
Lara's always been so thin she has a hard time gaining wieght.In this book she finds out who her friends realy are and who will stick with her through this hard time.I think this is a exciting book and recommend it to anyone who likes a page tuner.

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Summary: Amanda's review
Review: This book was about a girl named Lara. She is homecoming queen, popular, thin and has the most perfect life u could ever imagine. when she starts gaining weight, she diets and tries everything and nothing every works. She goes to the doctor and he diagnosed her with a eating disorder called Axell'Crown. It causes you to gain weight when you dont even eat. Everything started to go wrong in her life. Her father had an affair with a young woman and when her mother found out she overdosed on valiums. They soon enough moved to Michigan to start their life over. Throughout the book she seemed to have a need to be thin to be able to be stable. She found her stability in her looks and how people treated her. But when she excepts herself for who she is she, realizes that the way she is is the way that God wants her to be.

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Summary: Life In The Fat Lane
Review: I read Life In the Fat Lane and I thought it was awesome. A popular girl gets Axell Crowne which makes you gain weight that you can't lose. Her friends lose intrest in her except for one and people don't believe she has Axell Crowne. Her life was flipped and if you've heard of the expression Take a walk in someone else's shoes that was what happened to her. She took a walk in someone else's shoes. And not just anyone's shoes. A fat person's shoes. Her worst nightmare. She said she'd rather die or be sick than be fat. Well she sure changed her atttitude about overweight people after that.

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Summary: True, but not Heavy
Review: I realy enjoyed reading Life in the Fat Lane. In fact, it is one of my favourite books. Basically, it is my worst nightmare. The cutest, most popular girl at school, Lara Ardeche, begins to gain weight for an unknown reason. The cause is later found to be Axell - Crowne Sydrom, which makes the person retain water and gain weight. SInce there is no known cure, Lara's life must go on, even as she balloons up to 218 pounds. Lara soon discovers things about her family that she never knew, and realizes that even when she was thin and a beauty pageant winner, her life was not perfect. What I like about this book is that while it deals with a serious subject, it is often funny and does not preach. As Lara's views begin to change, it is clear to the reader what she thinks and feels. I recommend this book.

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Summary: Hard Lessons for a Prom Queen
Review: OK, I confess: I'm a 30 - year old mother with a career, and I'm still reading teenage fiction. How sad is that? Not at all, actually, when it's written as well as this book. Imagine: you are lovely Lara, Little Miss Popular, Homecoming Queen. Life is sweet. Mammy's rich and Daddy is good looking. Your boyfriend is deep and sensitive(even if not quite as popular as the one you dumped last year). You are friends with the cool crowd and wonder on occasions if your best friend Molly, who has a tendency to speak her mind and carries a few pounds too many, matches up. But you are a good girl, who offers Molly and other plump unfortunates condescending advice on how to improve themselves. And then you get fat. Not just a little overweight, but really, massively fat.Even without eating anything .Your positive attitude and discipline don't seem to help. Suddenly you are at the receiving end of pitying glances and "helpful" advice.You are no longer cool or cute. Your boyfriend still loves you but"just isn't in love anymore..." This excellent and inventive book deals with the inner turmoil of a Prom Queen's descent into fat hell. What I liked best was that the author resolutely refuses all easy cop outs. Lara now knows how fat people feel, but it makes her no wiser.The fat girl that she has patronised doesn't suddenly become her best friend. No, she visits Lara in hospital and gloats at her misfortune. Lara doesn't fall in love with the fat boy at her new school, they don't go on a diet and live happily ever after. But Lara does learn to live with her condition and learns a few hard lessons in the process. The quality of the writing is superb. All in all, a worthwhile book not only for adolescents.

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Summary: PAINFUL HOMECOMING
Review: Musically talented, bright, popular Lara Ardeche appears to have it all. Top grades and a sensitive, artistic boyfriend are also part of Lara's life. Crowned Homecoming Queen her junior year, Lara appears to be riding the wave of success. Until...

She begins gaining weight for no apparent reason. Medical tests can prove nothing until an endocrinologist determines the cause of Lara's problem as a rare metabolic condition called Axell-Crowne Syndrome. (this is a fictitious condition created for the story).

Lara's life is really less than perfect. Her astute brother Scott, 3 years her junior notices cracks in their family's facade of flawlessness. Their father has an extramarital affair, their mother chain smokes and lives a fantasy world of her past proms and wishful thinking and Lara's weight is an affront to her. After some heated intrafamilial confrontations, their father leaves. Scott has detested him for some 2 years when he first became aware of the man's infidelity.

Scott is a realist, a refreshing voice of wisdom. He does not buy into the superficial guage of appearance to judge issues and people. He is impatient with both parents because he feels they are superficial, judgmental and emotionally immature. He is right.

Their mother gives an ultimatum. Either the childrens' father leave Nashville and move to Michigan with her and accept her father's job offer or remain out of their lives. Lara has some tough decisions to make as well. She has to reevaluate herself based on her changed appearance and she has to figure out who is important in her life and why.

A good music teacher and other music lovers empower Lara to make decisions she can hopefully live with.