The Earth, My Butt,

and Other

Big

Round Things

Carolyn Mackler

懷有自卑情結的肥胖高中少女

憑藉毅力克服困難、奮發向上

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有著顯赫家世的過胖青少女，深信自己是家族內最脆弱的一環，直到她那英俊、強壯、明星學生的哥哥出乎意外地失寵。

正值笄年的維吉尼亞薛瑞斯有著臃腫肥胖的身軀及貌寢之姿，她足不出戶依網路而居，嗜吃垃圾食物，並且嚴格遵守「胖女孩準則」，萬萬沒想到她那結巴的好友，哪裡不去偏偏搬到華盛頓瓦拉瓦拉。至於她的新同伴佛基威爾許四世，這可是他的真名，小傢伙才剛成功的搆到她的裙子，維吉尼亞一天到晚擔心他一窺自己裙底風光。面對家人，母親是位成功的心理學家及健身愛好者，父親則是公司高級主管，整日色瞇瞇的盯著電視裡的苗條女人看，兩位大哥阿內斯與拜倫，雙雙體態健美又聰穎。少了維吉尼亞，薛瑞斯一家活脫脫就是個完美家庭。至少維吉尼亞是如此認為，直到一通電話改變了這一切……

An overweight teen is sure that she's the weakest link in her high-powered family — until her handsome, athletic, star-student brother has a shocking fall from grace.

Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex. She lives on the Web, snarfs junk food, and follows the "Fat Girl Code of Conduct." Her stuttering best friend has just moved to Walla Walla (of all places). Her new companion, Froggy Welsh the Fourth (real name), has just succeeded in getting his hand up her shirt, and she lives in fear that he'll look underneath. Then there are the other Shreves: Mom, the successful psychologist and exercise fiend; Dad, a top executive who ogles thin women on TV; and older siblings Anaïs and rugby god Byron, both of them slim and brilliant. Delete Virginia, and the Shreves would be a picture-perfect family. Or so she's convinced. And then a shocking phone call changes everything.

With irreverent humor, insight, and surprising gravity, Carolyn Mackler creates an endearingly blunt heroine whose story will speak to every teen who struggles with family expectations - and serve as a welcome reminder that the most impressive achievement is to be true to yourself.

■卡洛琳．馬克樂／Carolyn Mackler

Carolyn Mackler is the author of the acclaimed young adult novel LOVE AND OTHER FOUR-LETTER WORDS, which was an American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and an International Reading Association Young Adult Choice. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including SEVENTEEN, GIRLS' LIFE, TEEN PEOPLE, and GLAMOUR. Of THE EARTH, MY BUTT, AND OTHER BIG ROUND THINGS, she says, "So many of us feel like we don't quite fit in with the rest of the world, that we're inferior to others in some way. But things happen. Bad things happen. And many of us end up learning the difficult but important lesson that the people we idolize may not be all they're cracked up to be. And guess what? We're not so bad after all!"

作者：卡洛琳．馬克樂／Carolyn Mackler

版本：First US Edition

適讀年齡：十四歲以上／14 years and up

規格：精裝／Hardback，14.8 x 21.6 x 3 cm，252頁

出版商：Candlewick

品牌：Candlewick Press

出版日期：2003年07月14日

語言：英文

ISBN-10：0-7636-1958-2

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Condition: Good. Pre-owned book. No missing pages nor anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. All pages are intact, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. With dust jacket.

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