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  <title><![CDATA[Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt; Sarah Byrnes and Eric have been friends for years. When they were children, his fat and her terrible scars made them both outcasts. Later, although swimming slimmed Eric, she stayed his closest friend. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Now Sarah Byrnes -- the smartest, toughest person Eric has ever known -- sits silent in a hospital. Eric must uncover the terrible secret she's hiding, before its dark currents pull them both under. &lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chris Crutcher]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 30 19:50:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes when I was taking a young adult literature class in college. I'd just finished reading Chinese Handcuffs, also by Crutcher, and even though I'm not interested in sports at all, I really enjoyed it. Feeling in the mood for some more angst, but wary of the emphasis ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7058232">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 11 21:20:43 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is a heart-wrenching, very real novel of two best friends that stayed close for so long due to their alienated qualities. Makes me think twice about how I treat people in all settings. Chris Crutcher is definitely worth while. ]]></body>
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    <review id="2013850">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe I read this book while in high school, but picked it up at Borders again.<br/><br/>This Crutcher story focuses on Eric Calhoun, a high school student who was formerly &quot;the fat kid,&quot; and his friend Sarah Byrnes.  Sarah is a special person - Eric knows this immediately.  To every...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2013850">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Apr 14 11:33:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Engaging, heart-wrenching, and not my favorite Crutcher book.  Sarah's plight, illustrated by her terrifying burn scars, coupled with her dad's evil nature, make me want to run the other way at times. Not that the characters are melodramatic--Crutcher's constant deftness with elucidating the human p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16839443">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 05 20:07:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is a heartwarming novel that makes you appreciate loyalty in friendship of youth. The story tells the tale of two junior high friends who have found friendship in each other because of exterior flaws. The narrator, Eric (Moby), who is overweight, finds companionship in S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76878715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reinforces my objections to Chris Crutcher’s novels, since it had the same problems I saw in his earlier books.  The plot concerns a fat boy who takes up swimming and his friend, whose face was badly burned in an accident when she was very young.  The “villains” in the book are a ste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69710392">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eric's best friend is a tough, mean, scarred girl from a troubled home, Sarah Byrnes. They are friends because they are both objects of scorn and jokes among their peers. Eric is the fat kid. Sarah is disfigured by burn scars on her hands and face she's had since she was 3. There comes a time when E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70579371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22264668">
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    <body><![CDATA[Really good.  I don't like either of the covers I've seen.  The one I read was a pbk with a pretty girl covered in flames.  Wtf? SB is supposed to be totally hideous and scarred.  It's a good book for freaks that I wish I read when I was a kid but I wasn't into sports or teen male protagonists, both...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22264668">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an unexpected plot. Eric is fat and Sarah Byrnes was burned as a child. Their lives seem to fit together as outcasts. But when Eric joins the swim team and starts losing weight Sarah fears he won't be friends with her anymore. Add some crazy Christian fundamentalists, and a discussion class...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40345425">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chris Crutcher is a wonderful story teller.  He came to our Jackson Writer's Conference.  He worked for a longtime as a children's advocate and saw a lot of abuse.  THis is a great young adult novel about two best friends one of which has horrible scars from a burn and the other who has been fat mos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62123530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46611034">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I could write a one-word review of this book (obviously I've exceeded that already, but I'm making a point here). The problem is that if I drop this one word on you, you'll be like, &quot;What?!&quot; It's a racy word, and I think it might be okay to use it because it's not like I go throwin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46611034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71850171">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a classic young adult/teen novel that I've been meaning to read for a long time--read right through it this evening! Eric &quot;Moby&quot; Calhoune has only slimmed down during his high school years, thanks to the swim team. His best friend is Sarah Byrnes, whose face and arm were burned and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71850171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my current project of reading through my piles of accumulated books with a view of donating to our local library all but the special few, this one is a keeper.  I know I'll want to read it again.  The two irresistible outcasts - Eric &quot;Moby&quot; Calhoune, the fat kid, and Sarah Byrnes, the g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73627423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[       This book about a girl name Sarah who have been freinds with Eric all the way to Middle school. Her mysterious burn on her face and hands is what brought closer to Eric who had weight problems and been made of fun because of it. As he reaches to highschool he begins to lose his fat by swimmin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51238959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an intense book about two friends - one who is fat and one who is severely scarred - who remain loyal and true to each other throughout the treachery of school and humiliation.  The book dealt with several emotional subjects like bullying, abortion, physical abuse, dishonesty and courage. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66488805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38765211">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Sacramento library was selling this for 50 cents. I thought that this would be typical teen fare- enjoyable but not very deep.  Alas, it wasn't even enjoyable.  One of the main characters is a static, hypocritical, supposedly strict Christian.  It was bearable at first, but the straw-man Christi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38765211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book over ten years ago, and its emotional impact sticks with me to this day.  I will never forget the main character, Eric, often dubbed &quot;Moby.&quot; As an overweight high school junior, he is a combination of insecurity, intelligent honesty and sensitivity.  I was completely overw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42555690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes has made its way onto my list of all-time favorites. Chris Crutcher has taken a myriad of touchy subjects and rolled them into a novel that makes you laugh while you ponder all those tough questions. Though it raises tough issues like child abuse, vigilante justice, abor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77874437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, though I didn't think I would even be interested in it when I first read the description/review. It had a lot of complex issues in it, which is probably why it has been challenged so much. Basically the story is Eric (nicknamed Moby b/c he's fat) is best friends with Sarah Byrnes,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69213053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my introduction to Crutcher, and it is a great YA novel.  My colleagues love whichever of his books they've read, while my students aren't as enamored.  I get why the teens don't instantly love Eric:  the book spends a lot of the first act in a swimming pool or a middle school developing ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40545126">more...</a>]]></body>
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