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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I don't even know where to begin, but this novel was fantastic. Meghan is an outcast, and I really felt her pain. I thought this novel was so true to the horrors of high school, because let's face it, people can be harsh. Whenever J-Bar bullied her, I could see it happening. This novel dives de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73307182">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved reading Looks.<br/>The first thing that drew me to the book was the cover, I just thought that the cover looked really interesting.<br/>Looks goes a lot deeper than just a good cover however.<br/>For starters the descriptions that Madeleine George provides within her book are amazing. They a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73155627">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Despite her massive size, Meghan Ball is the most invisible person at Valley Regional High. People say things in front of her as if she doesn’t exist. And most of the time, she feels like she doesn’t— until Meghan sees Aimee Zorn. Aimee is as skinny as Meghan is large, and as outwardly angry as Meghan is inwardly sad. Meghan instantly recognizes a kindred spirit in Aimee, another person using her body to say what she cannot. Alone, they are powerless, but together, Meghan and Aimee join forces to get sweet revenge against the one girl in school who hurt them both.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Karin Librarian for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>Meghan is obese. She is the largest person at Valley Regional High and her hulking size, oddly enough, allows her to blend into the background. Most people are too uncomfortable to make eye contact and most teachers are content to allow her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67085863">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Meghan and Aimee look as different as possible - Meghan is a girl so big she has a hard time getting in and out of certain desks at school, and Aimee is so small that you might think a gust of wind would blow her away. But they do have one thing in common: both of these girls use food as a crutch to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69042590">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow!<br/>I gave a five-star rating to a book that left me dazed and slightly hollow.  Incredibly poetic and beautiful.  <br/>An anorexic girl/a humongous girl (&quot;made of mud and cellulite&quot; --my now favorite descriptive phrase).<br/>A moment for revenge.<br/>High school.<br/>It could ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15895933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lush, flowery language runs all throughout this story, though I wouldn't describe all of the subject matter as &quot;flowery&quot;, as this book definitely deals with some heavy-hitter adolescent issues.<br/><br/>It was refreshing to read a book told in 3rd person perspective, as so many YA books,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55684326">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Madeleine George is a brilliant writer.  This book is beautifully written, but it is also such a completely accurate look at high school life -- at least the bad parts.  Her writing is so completely on-target that I found it surprising that she's an adult and not still in the realm of teenagers.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45256834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This open-ended novel is one of the best books about bullying because it also covers eating disorders, family dysfunction, and school cliques. Meghan has been a friend with Cara Roy since grade school, but when Meghan gains weight, Cara drops their friendship. Aimee Zorn is the anorexic new girl who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74133797">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is interesting because it sort of defies easy categorization.  True, I had a little trouble getting into the writing style, but I was definitely interested in what was happening.  And, in the end, the girls don't change.  In books about fat girls or girls with anorexia, someone has an epip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40290346">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely well written (the author is an esteemed playwright)story about the unlikely friendship that develops between an obese outsider and an anorexic poet. Both girls are drawn together by the need for revenge, forming an unlikely alliance against the conventions and cruelty of high school. Altho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36548505">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Young adult literature has changed since I was an adolescent. I remember Sweet Valley High and though I enjoyed that series, I can honestly say that it seems that YA novels have changed for the better. “Looks” is a great example of this, a novel that takes the reality of two “different” girl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26600147">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This story has an amazing sense of perspective--and from two wholly different ends of a particular spectrum: body mass.  It is respectful yet as honest as one imagines an empathetic writer can achieve.<br/><br/>And, in a dark way in a few moments (thank heavens...or it might be too hard at points), ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26195854">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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