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Blog Tour + Book Review + Giveaway: Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

Title:  Fat Chance, Charlie Vega Author:  Crystal Maldonado Publisher:  Holiday House Release Date:  February 2, 2021 Pages:  352 Genres:  Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired.  Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, ev