I always hated summertime.
An edition of One Fat Summer
(1977)
One fat summer
1st ed.
by Robert Lipsyte
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An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.
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Weight control, Juvenile fiction, Weight loss, Fiction, Adolescence, Self-esteem, Children's fiction, Weight control, fiction, Boys, fictionTimes
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September 1981, Perfection Learning Prebound
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"An Ursula Nordstrom book."
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They used to call me Crisco Kid because I was fat in the can...
So begins the woeful tale of Bobby Marks, a 200-pound candy-bar nut who hated summertime because he couldn't hide his body fat in heavy clothes. The year was 1957. The month was hot July. That was the summer his friend Joanie goaded him into getting the job. When he met his idol, the lifeguard Pete Marino. And when Willie, the crazy ex-marine, vowed to gun him down. Then Bobby found out just how terrifying, exhilarating, dangerous, and wonderful, one fat summer could be...
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