Binding: Paperback
Description: " Beautifully written brilliant and necessary " (Matt de la Pena Newbery Medalist) here is a body - positive book about how a boy deals with fat - shaming. Ari has body - image issues. After a move across the country his parents work selling and promoting his mother's paintings and sculptures. Ari's bohemian mother needs space to create and his father is gone for long stretches of time on "sales" trips. Meanwhile Ari makes new friends: Pick the gamer; the artsy Jorge and the troubled Lisa. He is also relentlessly bullied because he's overweight but he can't tell his parents they're simply not around enough to listen. After an upsetting incident Ari's mom suggests he go on a diet and she gives him a book to help. But the book and the diet can t fix everything. As Ari faces the demise of his parents marriage he also feels himself changing both emotionally and physically. Here is a much - needed story about accepting the imperfect in oneself and in life.
Title: All Of Me
Author(s): Baron Chris
Publisher: Square Fish
Barcode: 9781250250599
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/15/2021