Life in the Fat Lane

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Summary: Cool
Review: I thought this book was great. I thought it must've been very tough for her but she found out who her real friends were when she started to gain weight. When I was reading this book as I was walking home and it started to rain but I couldn't put the book down. I loved it.

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Summary: Great Book for Teens!
Review: This book was very good. I am not usually into teen books, but, I must say, I enjoyed this one thoroughly! Cherie Bennet is an amazing author with quite some talent. She has proven herself greatly as a teen author with this book, Life in the Fat Lane. I honestly could not have enjoyed this book more, and I am anticipating the sequel! A wonderful book, if you love teen fiction, and even a great book if you don't normally like teen books. Definately, and very truely, A Great Book for Teens!

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Summary: I loved this book!!
Review: I really liked Life in the Fat Lane. I thought that Lara was really cool, and that she handled her situation very cooly. She was real,and I liked how she was unlike her friends, and at the beginning of the book she was nice. Thats unique in books, to see a popular, nice person! I think anyone in their right mind should read this book!

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Summary: Greatest Book I ever read!
Review: Life in the Fat Lane was the best book I read in a lon time. It is about a girl is has everything: popularity, great boyfriend, cool friends. Right after she wins homecoming queen, she starts to gain weight. Soon she is up to 200 pounds. Then her parents relationship start to "dissolve." She hates being fat and wishes she can just crawl up and die. This is a great book for young people to read. I bet you will enjoy this book!

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Summary: The Best
Review: I thought this book was excellent and real. Many teens can relate to this. She was so popular thinking she was a star but just like that her moment to shine was over. She put on all this weight and more weight. She got teased and then realized what it had felt like. She realized also that when she finally respected herself the weight went down.

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Summary: *I can understand how she feels*
Review: This book has touched me in as many ways possible that it's hard to describe. Writing a book about a teen problem which I can relate to because I am not satisfied with my weight either. This book is probably the best book on teen health that I could ever read. I liked it because it was so real and I could feel normal knowing I am not the only one out there who is not satisfied with themselves. Lara had problems that she had to deal with all through her major weight problem. She had to deal with her b/f, her friends who treated her differently because she grew bigger and name calling by very un-respectable classmates. The best thing that can help you through your problems is having supportive friends which Lara had and wonderful parents. I have very supportive parents who have been with me the entire time that I have been dealing with my self esteem, the only thing that I long for is a best friend. My best friends are still friends but they have all moved away, Lara is really lucky to have them.

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Summary: The Best Book Written By Cherie - I Couldn't Put It Down
Review: This book is about a girl with many hopes and dreams, one of which is winning Miss America. She has a best friend, an alchohoic mother, a 'perfect' father, and the perfect body. All her hopes are shattered when she suddenly starts gaining weight. Her mother - who is as skinny as a stick - pesters her about losing weight. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't seem to lose weight. Soon after, she gets put in the hospital with some disease....

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Summary: Fat Lane Shmat Lane
Review: This book is shalow and the author must think that all girls that read it are terribly focused on their looks. The story is way too predictable and tthe characters are unrealistic. the character get themselves into situations that would never happen in real life and then deal with the situation in a dumb way. The authour will describe a character as intelligent and insightfull and then have them in a bathroom having a stupid conversation and saying how fat they look. This is an awful book and I would not recomend reading it.

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Summary: Life in the fat lane
Review: "Life in the Fat Lane" Is a touching story about a girl named Lara. Lara was perfict, perfect parents, house, perfect life. In her junior year she was beautiful, thin, popular, and homecoming queen. That all changed, right after homecoming Lara started gaining weight, and didn't stop.by June she weighed 218 pounds. Finally she was diagnosed with a disease, Axell-crown disease. Axell-crown disease was very new and had no cure, some people even thought it didn't exist. She did EVERYTHING to lose weight, from fasting to laxatives, nothing worked. Her friends, and even parents deserted her in a way, she was completely alone except for her best friend Molly and her handsome boyfriend Jett. Then her parents made a decision, and she lost them to. This book is in a way about the life of any teenage girl. trying to live in the 21st century.

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Summary: Review for Life in the Fat Lane
Review: The book starts out in Nashville, when a girl named Lara is the main character. She is the model student, the model friend, and the model woman. She was declared homecoming queen in her sophmore year, and was the winner of many beauty pageants. But all of a sudden, she has an allergic reaction and she begins to gain weight. She keeps on gaining weight until she is almost two times the weight she was to begin with. This book is about her life with a weight-gaining disease, and her life in the "fat" lane. As I said before, the main character is Lara, the perfect woman/student. Her mom and dad are also perfect, that is, in body shape. They are both fit and very healthy. When their daughter begins to gain weight, they get embarassed and are unhappy about her. Her best friend, Molly, is overweight, but since Lara is such a good person, she stays best friends with her through thick and thin. Since Lara is very popular at the beginning of the book, she has many secondary friends that are mentioned. Her boyfriend, Jett, is a very supportive person, and is a great boyfriend. This book is set in Nashville, and about halfway through the book, she moves to Detroit, which is a totally different environment. The time is about 1997, and like I said before, Lara is a sophmore in high school. The main theme in this book is don't judge a book by its cover. This is the main theme because even though Lara became fat, she was still the same person, and people didn't think that. I recommend this book to anyone who is a teenager, because it is very real-to-life, and it is just an overall good book. I give it 5 stars.