Fourteen-year-old Jimmy Kelly is Fat Boy Fat, the largest kid in his Scottish community, who’s made to feel useless at everything. Only his f...
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Jan 18, 2009
Sandra
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Jimmy is a teenage boy who is overweight has no friends and gets picked on all the time. The one thing Jimmy does to escape into his own world is to cook and dream of being a chef. Jimmy can't tell anyone about his secret world of cooking because he would get picked on even more.Jimmy also wants to learn how to swim so with all his determination he takes on the challange.
Author Cathrine Forde takes the reader through the thoughts and feelings of an overweight teenage boy. I really enjoyed More...
Author Cathrine Forde takes the reader through the thoughts and feelings of an overweight teenage boy. I really enjoyed More...
Apr 10, 2010
Libby
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Fat Boy Swim was OK...
Jimmy Kelly, the protaganist, is fat. And he is an amazing cook, although he keeps his cooking skill a secret. After bullying, bullying, bullying, Jimmy begins to get fitter, bascically.
It was an interesting book and I think it showed me that size doesn't matter, as long as you are healthy. Also that people hate it if you stare at them in the pool xP
However I found all the family problems a little dramatic, turning what could have a been a four star book More...
Jimmy Kelly, the protaganist, is fat. And he is an amazing cook, although he keeps his cooking skill a secret. After bullying, bullying, bullying, Jimmy begins to get fitter, bascically.
It was an interesting book and I think it showed me that size doesn't matter, as long as you are healthy. Also that people hate it if you stare at them in the pool xP
However I found all the family problems a little dramatic, turning what could have a been a four star book More...
Dec 11, 2011
Den
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A really good teen book which covers the theme of bullying very well. Jimmy is an overweight teenager who is picked on by everyone at school including some of the teachers and has no friends so daily life at school is so hard.But he is a very good cook but unless he wants to be picked on even more, he has to keep it secret. He also wants to learn to swim so takes on the challenge and finds he is also very good at that. Putting effort into his swimming begins to make him fitter and begin to reali
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Aug 14, 2011
Shadowm2k7
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The author is great when it comes to first person. The kid in it describes everything as if it's food. Which is kinda humerus y'know ? The story line is..okayyy The words in it are great. I had to read it for an English paper I had to do but that's besides the point..
May 07, 2011
Beth
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such a good story , loved how jimmy managed to do so well and get slimmer and be with ellie , such an amazing story
Jun 04, 2008
Andrew
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This book is about a fat boy named Jimmy. He plays soccer, but everyone makes fun of him because he is fat. He is also a really good cook. One day his soccer coach, who also turns out to be his preacher, starts conditioing him so he can lose some of his fat. One day Jimmy deciedes he wants to be a swimmer. As he starts to get better at swimming, he meets a girl he likes who is a nerd, he loses weight, and is allowed to compete in a huge swim meet against his rival/meanest kid he knows. This was
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Dec 11, 2010
Matphew
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An interesting book about a fat kid who gets bullied and comes back as a really good swimmer. It kind of makes me feel annoyed that he never actually tried to changed by himself but needed help from another person. The main character though, works hard and does change, thus not getting bullied anymore. A good book with a bit of humor
Nov 11, 2011
Resna
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I thuoght it was fascinating to find out stuff abt his father and his families past that they all hide from him because they wann aprotect him but does it cause more harm then telling the truth
Jul 18, 2011
Andrew (Ace)
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Picked this up as a Playaway (MP3 player). Listened to the first few chapters, but kind of felt the blurb had spoilt it for me: I felt I knew already what was going to happen, so I couldn't be bothered to listen to any more.
Apr 01, 2008
Sandy
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Jimmy is fat, and he's an excellent cook, but he plans on keeping that a secret. Until the coach finds out his secret. And then starts him swimming. And Jimmy finds out he loves to swim.
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