The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

Name: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Carolyn Mackler
ISBN: 9781980007678

Author: Carolyn Mackler

Narrator: Laura Knight Keating

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/04/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction

Synopsis

Carolyn Mackler's Printz Honor book--starring the unforgettably funny, body-conscious Virginia Shreves--returns in this 15th anniversary edition featuring text updates and never-before-seen material from the author. Fifteen-year-old Virginia feels like a plus-sized black sheep in her family, especially next to her perfect big brother Byron. Not to mention her best friend has moved, leaving Virginia to navigate an awkward relationship with a boy alone. He might like her now . . . but she has her doubts about how he'll react if he ever looks under all her layers of clothes. In order to survive, Virginia decides to follow a "Fat Girl Code of Conduct," which works, until the unthinkable causes her family's facade to crumble. As her world spins out of orbit, she realizes that being true to herself might be the only way back. Told in a perfect blend of humor and heart, this acclaimed Printz Honor winner resonates as much today as it did when it first published, and now features a new author foreword, text updates, and other bonus content.

About Carolyn Mackler

Carolyn Mackler is the acclaimed author of the YA novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (A Michael L. Printz Honor Book); The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I; Infinite in Between; and Love and Other Four-Letter Words; and the middle grade novel, Best Friend Next Door. Carolyn’s award-winning books have appeared on bestseller lists and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Carolyn lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. The Wife App is her first adult novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne on April 23, 2008

I am not sure how I feel about this one. I even slept on it before reviewing it. On one hand, it is a good teen book (Why, it's a Printz Honor!). On the other, why does every fat girl protagonist have to be so darn pathetic? There must be some sort of checklist authors use for an overweight novel: *......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 12, 2018

This book is a TIME CAPSULE. I read this exclusively because I got an ARC of the sequel, which is inexplicably coming out this year. Yes. A sequel. To this 2003 contemporary. Which couldn’t do a better job of capturing a bygone, offensive, outdated way of looking at weight if that were its goddamn pu......more

Goodreads review by Debra on July 25, 2016

I'm wavering between a 3.5 and a 4 on this one. Very quick read. The book is about Virginia a girl trying to live in a "picture perfect family" when she herself does not feel quite so picture perfect. Dealing with being overweight, critiqued and facing a family crisis, Virginia deals with teenage is......more

Goodreads review by Christina on July 01, 2008

I LOVED this book in high school. I remember reading it repetitively because I just adored the main character, Virginia Shreves. I remember relating to her so, so well and supporting her over and over, always urging her on. I was her biggest fan. More often than not, I found myself wishing for what......more

Goodreads review by Amelia on August 08, 2018

This book has trigger warnings for depression, rape, self-harm and bulimia! So keep that in mind if you decide to pick up this book. I did enjoy it but there were some things that I did not like. The first thing is that it took to long to get anywhere. The first 100 pages were the same story, and for......more