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2) Unshrinking
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it-from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied...
3) Big
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 National Book Award Young People's Literature Longlist
2024 Caldecott Medal Winner and Honor Books
2024 Coretta Scott King Award Winner and Honor Books
2024 Caldecott Medal Winner and Honor Books
2024 Coretta Scott King Award Winner and Honor Books
Formats
Description
Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Nuestras comunidades son m̀s fuertes cuando nos unimos y nos tomamos el tiempo para entendernos, apoyarnos y celebrarnos unos a otros. En Celebrating All Appearances, los lectores aprender̀n la importancia de la aceptaci̤n y la empat̕a en lo que respecta a las apariencias, tanto elegidas como geňticas, y c̤mo practique estos en su vida diaria. Los conceptos de aprendizaje social y emocional (SEL) apoyan la mentalidad de crecimiento en todo...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this highly original and highly researched book, Zara Stone draws on the intersectionality of socioeconomic success, racial bias, the prison industry complex, and the fallacy of attractiveness to get to the heart of how appearance and societal approval creates self-worth, and uncovers deeper truths of beauty bias, inherited racism, effective recidivism programs, and inequality"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother's, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When thirty-one-year-old, disillusioned office worker Chikage Deguchi takes an experimental drug, she is physically transformed into her fifteen-year-old self and sets out to pursue everything she missed out on back then, including becoming a star.
Author
Series
Idol dreams volume 5
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"To pursue missed chances at love and success, 31-year-old Chikage Deguchi takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to how she looked at age 15. Chikage meets Tokita's girlfriend for the first time and is shocked to discover that she knows her! Even worse, she knows his girlfriend has been cheating on him..."--Page [4] of cover.
10) Idol dreams: 4
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"To pursue missed chances at love and success, 31-year-old Chikage Deguchi takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to how she looked at age 15. Chikage tells Tokita she's decided to date the teenage Ru as her 15-year-old self, and Tokita wonders how things might have been different if he had confessed his feelings for her back in high school." -- cover.
Author
Publisher
Belly Song Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick offers seventeen stories of individual women who open the door...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Broadway Body: I lied about my height on my résumé the entire time I was a dancer, though in truth I don't think the extra inch ever actually made a difference. In the US, 5'6" still reads as short for a man no matter how you slice it. The reason for my deception was that height was often the reason I was disqualified: choreographers often wanted taller male dancers for the ensemble and listed a minimum height requirement (often 5'11" and up)...
13) Idol dreams: 6
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"To pursue missed chances at love and success, 31-year-old Chikage Deguchi takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to how she looked at age 15. Brokenhearted after Tokita's engagement, Chikage writes the lyrics of a new song to express her emotions as Akari. But her producer Hibiki has suddenly gone missing ..."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the big game coming up, Mo Jackson, the shortest member of the basketball team, is determined to learn how to pass the ball in time to help his team win.
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister! Karen feels like an ugly duckling. She already has to wear glasses, and now her baby teeth are starting to come out, too. Fortunately, she knows exactly what will make her look glamorous -- a new haircut. But the beauty parlor lady cuts Karen's hair all wrong! Karen is devastated and worried about what the kids at school will say. Can...
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