When Zachary Beaver came to town
By: Kimberly Willis Holt
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780545438919
Subjects: Best friends; Fiction; Friendship; Overweight persons; City and town life
Description: During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
Notes: Originally published by Square Fish in 1999.

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