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Going, K. L.

Fat Kid Rules the World

187 pp. | Putnam | May, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-399-23990-1 $$17.99
(2) YA Overweight and friendless, high school senior Troy Billings is contemplating suicide when he meets homeless punk rocker Curt MacCrae, who invites Troy to join his band as a drummer. In this gritty and intense novel--perhaps more of a character study than a plot-driven story--these two disparate and desperate teenagers attempt to save each other and, quite possibly, end up saving themselves as well.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2003

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