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Fat Kid Rules the World
by K.L. Going (Goodreads Author)
by K.L. Going (Goodreads Author)
TeenFiction Teton County Library's review
bookshelves: realistic-fiction, printz-honor-book, self-image, suicide, humor
Jan 09, 11
bookshelves: realistic-fiction, printz-honor-book, self-image, suicide, humor
Teton County Library Call Number: YA GOING
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You're a 296 pound high schooler named Troy, and you're imagining what it'll feel like when the subway car splatters your huge body across the tracks...when you've worked up the courage to jum, Enter: scrawny, twitchy, fulthy musical genius, Curt MacCrae. Distraced, you miss your chance to end it all and begin to develop a relationship with this strange kid, and he decides you're perfect to be the drummer in his new band, Rage-Tectonic. The only problem is that you have't played the drums since 7th grade.
Laugh-out-loud funny in parts, touching and maddening in others, this book offers a glimpse of what it's like to be on the fringes, to be different, and feel stared at, and how one person believing in you can change your life and theirs.
No rating
You're a 296 pound high schooler named Troy, and you're imagining what it'll feel like when the subway car splatters your huge body across the tracks...when you've worked up the courage to jum, Enter: scrawny, twitchy, fulthy musical genius, Curt MacCrae. Distraced, you miss your chance to end it all and begin to develop a relationship with this strange kid, and he decides you're perfect to be the drummer in his new band, Rage-Tectonic. The only problem is that you have't played the drums since 7th grade.
Laugh-out-loud funny in parts, touching and maddening in others, this book offers a glimpse of what it's like to be on the fringes, to be different, and feel stared at, and how one person believing in you can change your life and theirs.
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