num_pages: 391
description: Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout the girl once dubbed America's Fattest Teen. But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now Libby's ready: for high school for new friends for love and for every possibility life has to offer. In that moment I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything. Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin too. Yes he's got swagger but he's also mastered the impossible art of giving people what they want of fitting in. What no one knows is that Jack has a newly acquired secret: he can't recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. He's the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his brain. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. Be hilarious. Don't get too close to anyone.Until he meets Libby. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school gamewhich lands them in group counseling and community serviceLibby and Jack are both pissed and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together the less alone they feel. Because sometimes when you meet someone it changes the world theirs and yours.
language: English
title: Holding Up the Universe
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers