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Fat
Camp
by Deborah Blumenthal.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Camp! Freedom, first kisses, summer fun...but not at Camp Calliope, a
prison camp for the overweight. That's where Cam Phillips' parents have
shipped her off to eat controlled portions, endure rigorous exercise,
and sleep in a bunk full of girls who'd rather exchange recipes than ghost
stories and gossip. Except for one cool girl from Texas, Faith Masters-who's
normal enough to help her stay sane and temporarily replace her best friend,
Evie. And then there's Jesse-the only thing close enough to drool-worthy
on the camp's menu. Cam can totally relate to him, since his basketball-coach
Dad sounds a lot like her perfectly thin, successful Mom. It looks like
for the next eight weeks, only the issues (and not the food) on Cam's
plate will be supersized.
From Entertainment Weekly.com
By her own definition, Cam Phillips is ''pudgy.'' ''And don't ask me what
I weigh, I'm not telling,'' she informs the reader testily. She becomes
even testier when her image-conscious parents — thin, the pair of
them — pack her off to a weight-loss camp. What happens that summer
to Cam, and to the friends she makes at camp (and the friend she leaves
back at home), might be the stuff of melodrama, but it's the stuff teenagers
will relate to, no matter what they weigh.
—TJ
Recommended ages: 13 and up
Entertainment Weekly.com
From ellegirl books
Teen girls sharing a cabin and late-night chats: Not too unusual,
right? Except that they are all overweight-one is bulimic, one is depressed
and one's a drama queen. Welcome to Fat Camp, where everyone exercises
a zillion hours a day and eats like birds. Main character Cam Phillip
is lovably chunky and honest, and the book, surprisingly, isn't an annoyingly
virtuous diatribe about weight loss.
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