Anyone know a YA fantasy with a fat main character?
Anyone know a YA fantasy with a fat main character?
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I read one where the character started out fat but she slowly burned off her fat when she was kidnapped and forced to cross a desert. When she finally went back home her husband actually didnt recognize her at first.
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson is what it was called
It was really good, and I think handledit really well, she wasn’t like “ooh I’m pretty now!” It was more like “I feel really strong and I like what my body can do”
Wade in Ready Player one started out that way.
Heft by Liz Moore.
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell had a curvy main character, and it was a sweet story
Koolaid smash for how hard I need to answer this question. The Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks, starting with the book The Black Prism. Kip, the protagonist, is a fat black kid with a messy ‘fro and obvious signs of neglect because his addict mom hates him. He doesn’t remain “fat” throughout the series extant (last book to be released next fall) but he continues to think of himself that way, which, speaking as a former fat kid, is pretty right on. It’s not strictly YA, as he grows and matures throughout the series, so if you are asking for a/your young person, read them first or with them, as there are other plots that involve sex, swearing, fighting, politics and everything else. The fantasy is amazing. This series has completely eaten my head.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7165300-the-black-prism
Might need to write one by the sounds of it!
Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven. It’s not fantasy, but young adult fiction.
Ready player one and dumplin, although not s fantasy.
Dumplin’!!’
Really liked Everyday, not fat necessarily but everyday he wakes up in a different body/personality
Dumplin!!!
One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte.
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