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(2) YA Susan has been sentenced to an afterschool discussion group for her alleged involvement in vandalizing another student's truck. This may be the least of her problems: she's the school fat girl, and it doesn't help that her dad, the football coach, refuses to discuss Susan's mother, dead five years. Predictably, involvement in the group helps Susan with all this, but in a believably gradual way and not always in expected directions.

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