Artichoke's Heart
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142414279 (0142414271)
Publish date: May 14th 2009
Publisher: Speak
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Humor,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Relationships,
Young Adult Contemporary
Peel Away the Layers……and you will get to know fifteen-year-old Rosemary Goode, who tips the scales at more than 200 pounds. As part of a post-Christmas/New Year’s resolution, she decides it is time to tackle her problem. At first she tries fad-diets. But, Rosemary finally takes a more practical ap...
I started reading this book because I wanted something light and entertaining. I fell in love with the book cover when I saw it at the store (I know they say you shouldn't but I did so sue me).When I read the first two pages, the main character Rosemary, seemed to have a strong voice and a clear nar...