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Summary: Omigod! It was like she was me!
Review: Last year we had to read a social issues book. I chose eating disorders. I read this book and so did one of my best friends. She didn't like the book but I could really relate to Judi. I understood why she wanted to do it. I thought this book related to the view of someone over weight very well.
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Summary: Girls can really relate to Judi.
Review: My friend gave me this book to read. She had read it and thought it was great. I loved it myself!! I couldn't put it down!! After I read it a diet obssessed friend ( the one that got me to read it) gradually stopped dieting and stopped thinking of herself as "fat". I think it kinda tells girls dieting, bullimia, and anoerxia aren't the answers.
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Summary: This Book Is The Real Deal!
Review: My name is Juliet, and I'm 20 years old. I too have a big problem with weight issues. I'm 5'8" and I weigh 147 pounds. I am currently trying to lose 57 pounds, so that I'll weigh 90 pounds. My thought pattern is sick. Hopefully some young girl out in about will read this book, and not become as sick as I have in the mind about weight issues. This book really deals with purging and fasting. READ IT!
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Summary: Good young adult book
Review: The book aplies to young ladies. The moral of the story is not to look at yourself from the outside but from the inside. It tells me that if I'm going to set goals, to follow them and not run away. The book looks at a lot of life-problems.
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Summary: Fat Chance review
Review: The book Fat Chance by Lesléa Newman was, overall, an okay book. The facts were interesting but scattered, and the appealing part came up in the second half, leaving 80 pages of reading that would have put me to sleep if I didn't force my eyes to stay open. The first 80 pages of the book were the first half of Judi Liebowitz's diary about her very, very boring life. It was all about the people at school teasing her about her weight, how her English teacher Ms. Roth was extremely fat, how Nancy Pratt was extremely skinny and the most popular girl in school, about her "diet", how she has a huge crush on this guy named Richard Weiss... Judi just goes on and on and on about her tremendously dull life.
On page 81, the book finally gets into Judi's bulimia problem. While in the bathroom one day, she hears someone throwing up in one of the stalls and finds out that it is Nancy Pratt, the most admired, fashionable, skinny girl in school. Judi soon found out that Nancy had been throwing up her lunch, and how she binges and purges every day. Nancy uses two fingers to stick down her throat, making her gag so she barfs all her food up into the toilet bowl.
Judi becomes very jealous of Nancy's figure and desperately tries to be like her, even if it means suffering Nancy's secret binge-and-purge cycles of bulimia. After a while, Judi is guarding the door while Nancy purges in the bathroom. Nancy had taken especially long, and so Judi checks out Nancy's stall and finds out that Nancy has passed out while puking up her food and must go to the hospital.
Judi kind of realizes that throwing up her food is dangerous, and she promises herself that she will never do it again. But can she keep that problem? Weight for Judi is no longer just another typical eighth-grade problem. It's a matter of life and death.
That is basically what happens in the rest of the book, but in between is issues about Judi's best friend and her having a fight and so on, and the information about bulimia is scattered and not detailed. It didn't learn much more than I already had learned about bulimia. What I did learn was that bulimics can sometimes find blood with their vomit, and this could be a problem. That's about it, though.
The book did not flow too well, and therefore was not of my liking. I would only recommend this book for required reading.
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Summary: One Fat Mistake
Review: The book Fat Chance is about a girl Named Judi Liebowitz. She is a normal teenage girl in the 8th grade who is so worried about her body and wants to lose weight and want to become the prettiest girl in school. She has tried every diet in the book and she starts this new diet and she keeps on eating and can't stop. But then one day she goes into the bathroom and hears a person throwing up, and you won't belive who it was. It was the prettiest and most popular girl in school. Her name is Nancy Pratt. She is so skinny and pretty and Judi wants to be friends with her. Nancy told her that is how she is so skinny. Then Judi trys this and that started her new friendship with Nancy Pratt. But then one day when Judi was guarding the door she knew that something was up because Nancy was taking way to long and when she was opening the door she saw the Nancy was sprawled out on the floor and passed out. But now Judi's life is out of control and she is between life and death. You have to read the book to find out what happens. My feelings about this book is very strong. This book is so happy at the begining but them when she is talking about her weight and she is being negative toward herself. I would recommend this book to someone who is struggling with his/her weight. This book isn't just for girls. It can be for anyone who is haiving trouble with their body image. The climax for this story is when Judi finds Nancy Pratt in the bathroom throwing up. You wouldn't think that one day you would find the most popular girl in school who purges her food to lose weight.
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Summary: Awesome Book!! The Best!!
Review: The reason I really like this book is because I can relate to some of her problems. I am over weight. I think this is a great book for any one that is struggling with weight problems. It show girls what can happen to you if you choose to be bulimic . I really loved this book.
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Summary: My Favorite Book so far!!!
Review: This book can be related to by so many teenagers .
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Summary: I read this book all in one night I couldn't put it down!!!
Review: This book is a very good book about Judi and her problems. I read it all in one night because all throught the book you are wondering what will happen tommorow? Will Nancy die? Will Judi ever be able to knock off her habit?
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Summary: Outstanding,couldn't have given a better message!
Review: This book is so good.I'm only 12 years old and I thought it was great,imagine what older readers would think?In my opinion, it was excellent!I think Leslea Newman should write a sequal that explains what happens to Judi in her life after she gets help.Does she get a boyfriend? Loose weight? Stuff like that would make a good sequal.
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