Artichoke's heart
By: Suzanne Supplee.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780525479024
Subjects: Overweight persons -- Juvenile fiction.; Weight control -- Juvenile fiction.; Self-esteem -- Juvenile fiction.; Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.; High schools -- Juvenile fiction.; Schools -- Juvenile fiction.; Overweight persons -- Fiction.; Weight control -- Fiction.; Self-esteem -- Fiction.; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; High schools -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; Tennessee -- Juvenile fiction.; Tennessee -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
Notes: Ages 12 and up.