Fat Girl on a Plane

Name: Fat Girl on a Plane
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Kelly deVos
ISBN: 9781974976416

Author: Kelly deVos

Narrator: Rachel L. Jacobs

Unabridged: 11 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 07/30/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes

Synopsis

FAT Cookie Vonns dreams include getting out of Phoenix and becoming the next great fashion designer. But in the world of fashion, being fat is a cardinal sin. It doesnt help that shes constantly compared to her supermodel motherand named after a dessert. Cookie scores a trip to New York to pitch her design portfolio, but her plans are put on standby when shes declared too fat to fly. When she finally arrives, she finds shes been replaced by her ultrathin rival. Cookie vows to lose weight, get out of the friend zone with her crush, and put her dreams back on track. SKINNY Cookie expected sunshine and rainbows, but nothing about her new life is turning out like she planned. When the fashion designer of the moment offers her what shes always wantedan opportunity to live and study in New Yorkshe finds herself in a world full of people more interested in putting women down than dressing them up. Her designs make waves, but her real dream of creating great clothes for people of all sizes seems to grow more distant by the day. Will she realize that shes always had the power to make her own dreams come true?

About Kelly deVos

Kelly deVos is from Gilbert, Arizona, where she lives with her high school sweetheart husband, amazing teen daughter and superhero dog. She holds a BA in creative writing from Arizona State University. She is the author of Fat Girl on a Plane and the Day Zero series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurie

I finished this book last week and totally forgot to add my review! The short version: I adored it. The longer version: It's a bold, sharp, smart, totally unforgettable gem of a YA contemporary debut. The main character, Cookie Vonn, is a girl you'll cheer for and relate to as she struggles to find......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

It's not often a book makes me want to stand up and cheer (along with making me LOL throughout). FAT GIRL ON A PLANE is like SEX IN THE CITY meets BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY meets something uniquely and completely all its own (I mean, how many authors can get away with casually and hilariously referencin......more

Goodreads review by E.

*** I received an ARC copy of this book I wasn't sure what to expect going into this book, but I loved it pretty much from page one. The scene on the airplane is heartbreaking, and I know people that have gone through exactly that. Everything Cookie goes through made me ragey, and then I wanted to st......more

Goodreads review by Katy O.

Thanks to TLC Book Tours and Harlequin Teen for this free review copy! * Cookie's story was such a raw and honest one, depicting a journey that so so so many young women experience every day. What really touched me the most was that it wasn't a straight up "fat is beautiful, I love my body" story the......more