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Artichoke's Heart

By: Suzanne Supplee
Narrated by: Eve Bianco
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 It;s not so easy being Rosemary Goode and tipping the scales at almost two hundred pounds —especially when your mother runs the most successful (and gossipiest!) beauty shop in town. After a spectacularly disastrous Christmas break when the scale reaches an all-time high, Rosemary realizes that things need to change. (A certain basketball player, Kyle Cox, might have something to do with it.) So begins a powerful year of transformation and a journey toward self-discovery that surprisingly has little to do with the physical, and more to do with an honest look at how Rosemary feels about herself. Depression & Mental Health Difficult Situations Family & Relationships Friendship Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Self Esteem & Self Image

Critic reviews

“This has the breezy fun of recent YA chick lit, but with an uncommon heroine dealing with serious issues.”—School Library Journal

“In her first novel, Supplee brings a cast of original characters to life in this convincing and consistently entertaining narrative.”—Booklist

“Supplee makes the reader care right up to the heartwarming finish.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Artichoke’s Heart is delicious! Suzanne Supplee has written a brave, sensitive story that will inspire girls of all sizes.”—Carolyn Mackler, author of The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book

“Supplee handles a delicate issue with compassion and dexterity. The book’s strength is that its messages of physical and mental health and the possibility of change are offered, not with the grim drudgery of a strict diet, but as a sweet confection of southern charm and gentle humor.”—VOYA
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