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  <title><![CDATA[Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies]]></title>
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  <default-description>Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn&#8217;t entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she&#8217;s forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste&#8212;because, after all, a thin girl can&#8217;t be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was that losing weight would help her gain a backbone . . . or that all she needed to shine was a spotlight.&lt;p&gt; A hilarious debut featuring friendship, family, mean girls and even celebrity crushes, Celeste&#8217;s story is a delicious treat that doesn&#8217;t add a pound.</default-description>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably just what I needed right about now. Eighth-grader Celeste, an overweight girl with a love for Oreos, is entered into a plus-size model beauty pageant (&quot;Miss HuskyPeach&quot;) by her aunt. She's already made fun of a lot in school, and if anyone found out she was a &quot;fat model&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48980963">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read a YA novel since I WAS a young adult, so it's a bit hard for me to judge its quality as I have nothing to compare this to. But Erin is a fellow graduate of my MFA program at Emerson College so I had to snatch the book up the week it appeared in paperback.<br/><br/>The story started ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41182920">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 16 09:12:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read as Celeste not only learns to lose weight but learns to stand up for herself and become more outgoing.  A fun, fast read.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What is refreshing to see is that Celeste does not resort to the unhealthy ways of losing weight. She actually strives to cut back on her snacks - though it pains her - and eat healthier things. Slowly Celeste starts to see some positive results - she may not have the killer bod, but she does not ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51332969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Celeste has always been called the Fat Girl, not only by the popular Lively and her antlike friends, but everyone knows she isn't the skinniest girl in the world. Celeste's best friend, Saundra, helped her get out of every bad situation, but now Saundra's gone to the other side; with the popular, pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46235184">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overweight middle schooler Celeste Harris tells her story in Models don't eat chocolate cookies.  Made fun of incessantly by classmates (and now her best friend), humiliated every time she has to go shopping with her mom and aunt, and forced to be in her cousin's wedding (and wear a peach-colored dr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75941658">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a young thirteen year old girl struggling with her weight in middle school is somehow humorous in the authours style of writing throughout the entire book. Celeste Harris deals with constant bullying because of her size, and she cant imagine things any worse. But when her aunt enters he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74178430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I laughed, a lot, at this book. Well not at the book but with the book. As a middle-schooler I had been teeny-tiny in every way possible (height, weight, voice) so while I never got the taunts of 'Mooooo' from my classmates, I did get height jokes a plenty. And mouse jokes. I felt as if Celeste and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72929331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those funny and touching books you run across and wonder why no one else has been making a bigger deal about it sooner. Eighth-grader Celeste pretty much likes her life. It isn't perfect, but she is happy. In fact, the only thing she has trouble with is this girl Lively Carson, who is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70494356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amy Brantner,141 pages. This is an interesting and fun book to read. I loved the fact that it described Celeste Harris's(the main character) life in great detail. it is about an overweight girl,(Celeste) who's life seems to be pretty well. Other than a girl named Lively Carson who always makes fun o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58463115">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies was a light fast paced novel. Unlike the other books I’ve read on modeling (Violet On The Runway), this book was not as deep and serious. It had some hilarious dialogues and there are times you can totally relate to Celeste. I like how there was some internal d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60863235">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 13:54:47 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! This really is a great book! It makes you think about  other people and their feelings!IT IS A MUST READ!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gabriella Rea 803<br/><br/>		I saw the book Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies last year at the book fair. When I read the back I knew that I would be interested.  When I first started to read the book I couldn’t put it down. It was fun and definitely for me! I like the author’s style of wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73294920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47634444">
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was great and I recommend it for any girl.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a witty, angsty tale of self-esteem issues and teenage misery. Celeste is overweight and in junior high school, two things which should never occur simultaneously. When her Aunt Doreen enters her in the Miss HuskyPeach contest, Celeste is in danger of becoming the spokesperson for heavy girl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63295640">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me laugh out loud several times.  I have had to wear enough Peach Monstrosities in my life to completely relate to this wonderful, touching book about self-acceptance.  A must-read for all tween girls.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Erin Dionne has created a spirited underdog in the character of 8th grade Celeste.  I cheered for her until the bitter end!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Celeste has always been a bit chubby, but it hasn't ever really mattered until high school.  Most of the time she can ignore the comments, and when she can't she has a best friend who sticks up for her.  Then she's hit with a double-whammy: her aunt has entered her into a modeling contest for plus-s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67272287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a few too many perfect coincidences here. But they're so well done that even when you see them you find them as soul satisfying as the snacks Celeste gives up in order to try and LOSE a plus-sized girls modeling contest. And Celeste herself comes off as a very real, believable character. Oth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53336673">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While reading this book it reminded me how tough the middle school years can be. You practically remember the smells of insecurity, and since I was a chubby girl myself at those times I could relate to our main character Celeste. I could feel her pain when she talked about the dreaded one mile run! ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50526668">more...</a>]]></body>
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