Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Big Fat Manifesto

Big fat manifesto - Susan Vaught

Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.


Monday, August 25, 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable - by John Boyne

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.