Fat characters in recent young adult fiction

Kliatt, Sept, 2003 by Rebecca Rabinowitz

Works Cited

Atkins, Catherine. Alt Ed. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. New York: Dell, 1911.

Chambers, Aidan. Postcards from No Man's Land. New York: Dutton, 1999.

Cushman, Karen. Rodzina. New York: Clarion, 2003.

Davis, Rebecca Fjelland. Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Deuker, Carl. Night Hoops. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Kennemore, Tim. Circle of Doom. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2003.

Mackler, Carolyn. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Cambridge, MA.: Candlewick, 2003.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: Scholastic, 1997.

Slade, Arthur. Dust, New York: Random House, 2003.

Rebecca Rabinowitz has a Master's degree in children's literature. She reviews for Kirkus Reviews and KLIATT. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.