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Putting makeup on the fat boy

by Bil Wright

Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 780L · 2012

Why we'd hand it over

Honest and specific about adolescent cruelty without melodrama—a quiet, powerful book about refusing to disappear, anchored by a protagonist who earns his own voice.

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