The book "Maggie Bean Stays Afloat", is about a young but over weight girl. When Maggie joins a club for weight lose, she meets her best friend Arnie. Mags and Arnie have been friends ever since, but that all changes when Mags gets a new job as a junior swim instructor at her little sisters summer day camp. There, she meets a whole new set of friends that she leaves her old ones for. Her used to be best friend Amii, is haging out with her friends in the summer camp and their little group is called the Figure Eights. Maggie, says she's going to have a no boy summer after PEtter Applewood turned Maggie down because of another girl at their school. Ben, tge boy Maggie meets in summer day camp is also a swim instructor, and he falls for Maggie and takes her away from her old friends. Until one day, her new friends find out about her past and how she was so over weight and they stop takling to her for a few days, and Maggie was misserable. But eventually, Maggie just goes back to her real friends, and finds out that Arnie likes her. They get together and start their new relationship at a bbq Maggies parents set up. I would reccomend this book to people that are having relationship problems, and for people that just want a good laugh. This book taught me that new people may come and go, but real friends always are by each others side no matter what.