BOOK: Life in the fat lane by Bennett

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Bennett, Cherie._Life in the fat lane._Laurel-Leaf, 1998
[0-440-22029-7]
Lara is a beauty pageant winner and has just been chosen the
homecoming queen when inexplicable she starts gaining weight
very fast.   In a matter of a couple of months she is over 200
pounds!  It appears she has caught some metabolic disease
(fictional or not I don't know.)  Suddenly this person everyone
admired is slipping out of the "in crowd" and she is at risk for losing
her boy friend.  When her family moves, it helps a little, but Lara is
still hurting.  She begins to understand how other less then
beautiful people feel.  This 260 page book is very thought provoking
in this weight conscious society and not as shallow as it sounds.

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