Fat Chance

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I read this book for a school project and I just loved it! The book is written in a diary form so it's easier to read and understand. The book was about a girl called Judy who wanted to be like the skinniest girl at her school called Nancy. But after being friends with Nancy she finds out all her secrets about being skinny, which were not good at all. I would recomend this book to young adults and adults.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I really enjoyed this book, it really showed me how hard a girls life can be and before I read it I was almost like Judi, but then it hit me that my friends and family are more important than boys or looks. Because no matter how I look the people who love me for real will always be there.

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Summary: Great
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as it really made me think about the way the world worked.It was very true to life and you can relate to it(if your sad).The way she wrote it was quite good and all round it was a fab read

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Summary: A disturbing, yet true book!
Review: I thought that this was a very good book. I am a 12 year old girl, and I now realize how sick some people may feel because they think they are "fat." I am ashamed to say, but in the past, I have made fun of these people sometimes. I don't think that I want to, or have reason to, anymore.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: I thought this book was amazing. My best friend suffers for anorexia and this helped me understand where she was coming from. She saw it on my desk and asked to borrow it. She returned it the next day, having the read the whole thing. She, too, said it was like her life. We cried together, and on that day, she decided to eat. She had been in rehab and had been fighting getting better, but after reading this she was renewed. She wanted to live and to get better. It is now a month later and she is not healed, but is on the path of recovery. This book has saved her life. I thank Leslea Newman for this inspirational story.

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Summary: Judi's trouble
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone who knows people with eating disorders or anyone who is interested in them.

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Summary: Bulimia
Review: Judi is an ordinary girl; except she's overweight. Judi is in love with Richard, a boy at her school. She envies Nancy, a stick-thin girl at her school. Judi tries and tries to lose the extra weight, but always fails. Nancy becomes Judi's friend, and shares with her the biggesr secret of her life. Judi then tries the most dangerous way of losing weight. Judi is sure that this will get Richard's attention. My opinions were mixed on this book, so I gave it three stars. It kept me reading but ended poorly.

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Summary: Fat Chance
Review: Judi Lebowitz always dreamed of being thin. Since she was on the heavy side, she would do almost anything to look like the models on the covers of magazines. Judi tried every diet int he book, but none of them worked. One day in the bathroom at school she heard someone throwing up. It was her classmate and idol Nancy Pratt. Nancy let Judi in on her "dieting" secret. Judi thought that if the most popular girl in the school could throw up and lose weight, why couldn't she. As of that day Judi started to binge and purge. No one knew about it except for Nancy. In a weird way, this started their friendship. Judi hid this from her mom and from her best friend Monica. In school, Judi kept a diary for and English class assignment. In her diary she wrote down all of her feelings and thoughts on subject such as, school, boys, friends, and her body image. One day when Nancy was throwing up after lunch and Judi was guarding the doorway, Judi thought that Nancy was taking longer than usual. When Judi finally got the door open, she found Nancy on the floor passed out. After that incident, Judi swore that she would never throw up again, but she wa unable to keep that promise. The next few days, Nancy was in the hospitals recovering. Read the book to see what happends to Judi and Nancy. I think that Judi was the most interesting character because she took the readers for a journey through her mind. While you read, you feel like you know Judi like a best friend. I would definitely recommends this book. I think that people in their teens could relate to this book. I think that everyone thinkgs that they need to fix their body image, or they find some sort of flaw. I would give this book two outstanding thumbs up!

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Summary: Eating disorders don't work forever!
Review: Judi Liebowitz, is a young teenager who had just moved and found herself out of place at her new school. She had few friends after moving and mostly talked to her mom about her problems. A Journal was a required assignment for one of her classes throughout the school year. At first she hated it and thought it was a waste of time. Soon she realized that she could write all of her feelings that she never let out, and looked at her diary as a best friend instead of an assignment. She always wrote about how her life would be perfect if she were skinny. Judy,weighed 130 pounds and was always trying to find a way to loose weight. Nancy Pratt, is a gorgeous girl who has everything perfect. Judy had always compared herself to Nancy, so Nancy was always better than her. Judy always wished that someday she herself could be as pretty and skinny as Nancy, somebody who everybody got along with and somebody that everybody had crushes on. Judy just wanted to know how Nancy was that perfect. Soon Judy realized that Nancy is not as perfect as she seems, and she does have a way of looking the way she does. Nancy and Judy both had an eating disorder and Judy had thought this was the best time of her life, she was actually loosing weight instead of gaining weight. They liked it even more when they knew they had each other when they needed help. Nancy and Judy had kept their eating disorder a secret for a few months until Nancy blew it for the both of them!

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Summary: THE ULTIMATE PAGE-TURNER
Review: Judy Liebowitz is obsessed with being skinny. She thinks she is fat, where at 5'4 and 128 lbs., the truth is that she is not. Judy begins to starve herself, until she finds out skinny Nancy Pratt's secret to lose weight. A secret that could kill.
I loved this book, because for one thing, I could really get inside a girl with an eating disorder, and what anorexia is like. I had thought about becoming anorexic before, at 5'0 tall and 85 lbs. and losing weight gradually. But after reading this book, I realized that there is such a thing as being too skinny.