Fat chance

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Judi Liebowitz thinks she's fat. And she's convinced, as she confides in her diary, that she'd be happier if she were skinnier. So when Judi becomes friendly with pencil-thin, glamorous Nancy Pratt, she learns Nancy's secret and joins her in the secret binge-and-purge cycles of bulimia. Before long, Judi's life spins out of control and her obsession with food, calories, and pounds is no longer another typical eighth-grade problem--it's a matter of life and death.

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《學校圖書館期刊》(School Library Journal)評論

Gr 6-9Judi Beth Liebowitz appears to be a typical 13-year-old girl. She wonders what she will be when she grows up, what having a boyfriend would be like, and wishes she could lose weight. This desire to be thin, however, begins to dominate her thoughts and actions. Newman chooses a diary format to allow readers a personal look at Judi's emotions. As diary entries progress, her determination to be thin consumes her. She becomes friendly with Nancy Pratt, the most popular and skinniest girl in school, and learns that Nancy binges and purges. As Judi begins to experiment with this new way of ridding herself of food, Nancy is rushed to the emergency room and placed in intensive care. The story finishes a bit too neatly with Judi making up with her best friend, confiding in her English teacher, and confessing her problems with eating to her mother. Everyone is understanding, and she eventually meets with a counselor. Judi is a likable character with whom young teens can empathize, but Nancy is portrayed as a selfish, manipulative girl, and readers never learn her motivations. Fat Chance had the potential to be a strong story on an important topic, but it is too flawed to have its intended impact.Melissa Yurechko, Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

《出版社週刊》(Publisher's Weekly)評論

Through the journal of an eighth-grader obsessed with eating, Newman (Eating Our Hearts Out; Heather Has Two Mommies) explores the horrific ramifications of the ``thinner is better'' female aesthetic. At 5'4'' and 127 pounds, Judi is convinced that she is fat and therefore unlovable. Hiding herself in dark, baggy clothes, she scorns her overweight English teacher for defying the wisdom of Seventeen magazine and wearing wide belts and horizontal stripes. When Judi discovers that her idolized classmate, would-be model Nancy, stays skinny by making herself vomit after eating, Judi cultivates the practice too, developing a routine of binging and purging. Nancy almost dies of starvation, and Judi, meanwhile, begins to realize that she's no happier at 120 pounds than she was at 127. Eventually she recognizes that she needs help. Going further than the average YA ``problem'' novel, Fat Chance suggests the extent of eating and body-image disorders among seemingly healthy girls; it also demonstrates, rather than insists on, the importance of professional help. Judi's convincing voice and true-to-life experiences add up to a compelling, thought-provoking narrative. With the pre-eminence of the ``waif look'' in today's fashions, this book should be required reading for adolescent girls-older readers could profit by it as well. Ages 10-14. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

號角書評

Readers of this novel in diary form will be drawn into thirteen-year-old Judi's story. Her obsession with losing weight leads to bulimia until the hospitalization of a bulimic classmate finally causes her to seek help. While the subject is serious, the novel is not without humor; Judi is a likable character, and her ruminations about boyfriends and possible careers ring true. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus 評論

This fictional diary of an eighth-grader is frighteningly realistic--and all too relevant. In Judi Leibowitz, Newman (Eating Our Hearts Out, 1993, etc.) has created a character who speaks for girls who are unhappy with their bodies, who diet obsessively from a very young age, and who often hurt themselves, physically and emotionally, in their quest for ``the perfect body.'' Like most of these girls, Judi has a completely normal figure but imagines herself to be obese. Nearly every entry of the diary she is keeping as an assignment for English is about her weight. Since the book is entirely from Judi's perspective, the reader only discovers that Judi is not fat from occasional hints--like when a classmate draws a picture and Judi doesn't recognize herself because she doesn't ``look fat at all.'' The girl Judi idolizes, Nancy Pratt, is eventually hospitalized for her bulimia, and Judi herself experiments with purging and laxatives when her dieting proves ineffectual. Judi disgusts herself, but she is powerless to stop her obsessive behavior until she shows her diary to her mother, who helps her get counseling. With Kate Moss's bony hips sticking out of billboards and magazines everywhere, girls can't hear enough about how attractive and normal their own bodies are. Kudos to Newman. (Fiction. 10-14)

《書目》(Booklist)評論

Gr. 6-9. Judi thinks she's fat. More than that, she is gradually becoming obsessed with her weight, and it's affecting her relationships with her single-parent mom and her best friend, Monica, as well as her interactions with her classmates, especially the boys. Diary entries tell the story--the teasing, the embarrassment, the guilt, the self-disgust--as Judi progresses from sporadic attempts at dieting to fasting to bingeing and purging. There are some very nice touches here (the diary format being one), but there is also evidence of a rather heavy hand: a fat teacher becomes Judi's deliverer, and a classmate far worse off than Judi depicts the consequences of abusing food. What Newman really gets right is the voice. Judi's unpretentious confessional will sound achingly familiar to girls struggling with self-image: the angst and the details are perfect. ~--Stephanie Zvirin

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