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    612-822-4611

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All of Me

All of Me

Baron, Chris

Paperback

General Juvenile FictionPoetry

Publisher Price: $9.99

ISBN10: 1250250595
ISBN13: 9781250250599
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.60
Language: English

Beautifully written, brilliant, and necessary, (Matt de la Pena, Newbery Medalist), here is a body-positive book about how a boy deals with fat-shaming.

Ari has body-image issues. After a move across the country, his parents work selling and promoting his mother's paintings and sculptures. Ari's bohemian mother needs space to create, and his father is gone for long stretches of time on sales trips.

Meanwhile, Ari makes new friends: Pick, the gamer; the artsy Jorge, and the troubled Lisa. He is also relentlessly bullied because he's overweight, but he can't tell his parents--they're simply not around enough to listen.

After an upsetting incident, Ari's mom suggests he go on a diet, and she gives him a book to help. But the book--and the diet--can't fix everything. As Ari faces the demise of his parents' marriage, he also feels himself changing, both emotionally and physically. Here is a much-needed story about accepting the imperfect in oneself and in life.

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