The Fat Boy Chronicles by Diane Lang
››› Download audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: The Fat Boy Chronicles ISBN: 0615296564 ISBN13: English Autor: Diane Lang/Thomas H. Inge (Foreword)/ Michael Buchanan Rating: 3.9 of 5 stars (357) counts Original Format: Paperback, writes Jimmy Winterpock. At age fourteen, 5'5" Jimmy weighs 187 pounds. Outside the comfort of his family and church, life for Jimmy is a constant struggle. The cruel taunts of his classmates make going to school or playing sports a humiliating experience. Yet, he still manages to focus on his goals--to lose weight and win over the girl of his dreams.
Inspired by a true story, THE FAT BOY CHRONICLES reveals to readers the emotionally painful world obese teens experiece in the face of a thin-obsessed society. Download Format: PDF, FB2, MOBI, MP3.
Published: 228 pages Language: May 1st 2009 / by Hi Def Media Group / (first published February 1st 2009) Genre(s):
An effervescent speaker and impassioned naturalist, Diane Lang began working as a docent at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, California in 2001. Over the next decade, she presented public programs about the various wild animals that reside at the museum, led class tours, visited schools, and worked directly with the museum’s non-releasable hawks, owls, falcons, and yes, vultures. Before long Diane was also docenting at Sulphur Creek Nature Center in Hayward and at Eaton Canyon Nature Center back in her hometown of Pasadena where she helped to create innovative nature-focused curricula for student groups. She’d already served as a reader in the public schools via the Pleasanton Public Library and had read countless books to her son Peter. And before that, she’d honed her writing skills in the publications department at the California Institute of Technology. She holds a B.A. from Cal State Los Angeles. Diane has written verses for fun all her life, but she started spending more time at it just a few years ago, when she wondered if putting some of the animal information into rhyme would help children remember it. During some programs, she would say to the children that even though we don’t send birthday cards or valentines to spiders and insects, we probably should, because they are some of our best friends! As she wondered what such valentines might sound like, she started having fun with the idea, and Vulture Verses: Love Poems for the Unloved was born. After sharing her fascination with the natural world and its more exotic animals with children at these three nature centers, Diane goes home to her husband, the acclaimed origami artist and physicist Robert Lang, and her menagerie (which includes the tarantula she travels with), and writes poems about her favorite critters.
Description: I'm the diet-challenged kid who sits in the last seat by the door. I'm probably bigger now than I was this morning because your class is right after lunch and homeroom,
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May 14, 2015 Ricardo Rated it: it was amazing This book was just wow. I like how the main character Jimmy was portrayed. He was 5'5 and 187 pounds. He was a Freshmen in a new high school. his family always moved him for some reason. He was a friendly person but he had no friends. On his first day of school he sat with this other loner kid and was not so great. He was pushed around by the jocks. In gym class he was called piggy. one time in order to make friends he decided to dare a "friend" to run across the gym and back in his underpants. This book was just wow. I like how the main character Jimmy was portrayed. He was 5'5 and 187 pounds. He was a Freshmen in a new high school. his family always moved him for some reason. He was a friendly person but he had no friends. On his first day of school he sat with this other loner kid and was not so great. He was pushed around by the jocks. In gym class he was called piggy. one time in order to make friends he decided to dare a "friend" to run across the gym and back in his underpants. He did that too but instead they closed the door on him, he was naked on the hallway. Since he was tired of people calling him piggy he decided to loose wight and started to run a lot. He met this girl in English Julia, who he fell in love with. He was given this journal to write his feelings everyday for English homework. He mostly wrote about Julia. He invited her to church and then just started to date. When they started to date this guy bullied him for taking his girl. One day he was tired of him being bullied bu that guy he decided to kiss his girlfriend in the cafeteria in front of the whole school. Then school was over and they lived happily ever after. i
really enjjoyed the book because i can relate to him but i didnt get a girlfriend or get called piggy. i just did it for myself. My favorite part was when he kissed Julia in front of the whole school. My least favorite part was when he was being bullied. My cousin and i did a dare on netflix he would watch a movie based on a book and i would read the ok which was fine by me. I proved him that the book was better. i would reccomend it but be aware you might get emotional. 1 like
