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Big Boned

By: Jo Watson
Narrated by: Jill Winternitz
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Can she be herself in a one-size-fits-all world?

Lori Palmer is the new girl at Bay Water High, where students prize glossy hair, "beach" bodies, and thigh gaps above all else, which is so not her. She misses her old school, where her artistic talent was more important to her peers than a chia smoothie recipe ever was.

Uncomfortable in her own size-sixteen skin, Lori decides to survive senior year as best she can by blending into the background while she melts in the summer heat. But her plans go completely awry when she discovers popular jock Jake volunteering at her brother Zac's school. When her brother befriends Jake's sister, Lori is suddenly thrust into Jake's unfamiliar world of water polo, parties, and stargazing.

As she grows closer to Jake, and her relationship with her mother starts to deteriorate, Lori's old anxieties resurface and she throws herself into her art. It's a wildly new direction for Lori, and through it she realizes that finding her voice might get her into a world of trouble, but standing up for what she believes in is as important as standing up for herself.


© Jo Watson 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Depression & Mental Health Difficult Situations Literature & Fiction Romance Self Esteem & Self Image Health Mental Health

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It is a really lovely story about teenage problems, but why do they choose an American speaker for in South African author? I really don’t like American English that’s why I choose authors from other English speaking countries I was contemplating not going on with my listen and to give the book back. I do not regret finishing to listen but I really hope that other stories by South African authors will be in South African English.

Really Nice Story, but what a shame

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