6 Tween and Teen Novels About Weight Loss

	The Summer I Lost It by Natalie Kath Kat writes a weight loss diary to help her achieve sensible, healthy weight loss while also sorting out her relationships with two boys.
	Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught Jamie Carcaterra, writer of her school's Fat Girl newspaper column is distressed by her boyfriend, Burke's decision to have weight loss surgery.
	The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn Maggie Bean kicks her candy habit by taking up swimming and facing down the hard times that led her to overeat.
	Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going Troy Billings weighs nearly 300 pounds and sees the entire world from the perspective of a fat person until he meets Curt MacCrae and discovers punk rock.
	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher Moby, an outsider because of his weight does his best not to lose weight so that Sarah, also isolated due to disfiguring burns on her face, won't be the odd one out all alone.
	Jelly Belly by Robert Kimmel Smith Eleven-year-old Ned must spend a summer at Camp Lean-To to help him lose weight, but it's difficult when he and his bunkmates keep finding ways to cheat on their diets.