Synopses & Reviews
Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn?t entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she?s forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste?because, after all, a thin girl can?t be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was that losing weight would help her gain a backbone . . . or that all she needed to shine was a spotlight.
A hilarious debut featuring friendship, family, mean girls and even celebrity crushes, Celeste?s story is a delicious treat that doesn?t add a pound.
Review
"The wry first-person narrative . . . provides convincing views of middle school friendships, family dynamics, and incremental personal growth . . . A light, well-paced first novel." - Booklist
Synopsis
Celeste Harris's aunt enters her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she is forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste. After all, a thin girl can't be a fat model. Celeste never imagines that losing weight will help her gain a backbone, in this hilarious debut.
Synopsis
Middle grade girls will love this quirky, hysterical novel by Erin Dionne! Celeste Harris used to be perfectly comfortable with her weight. She also used to think nothing would make seventh grade worse than super-popular, super-mean Lively Carson's persistent insults and attempts to steal her best friend. But then her aunt secretly signed her up for a pageant for plus-sized girls against her will, and suddenly it was clear: Things could be much worse. So Celeste crafts a plan - she'll sacrifice her chocolate cookie obsession, lose weight, and shrink right out of the competition.
Synopsis
Elsie Wyatt is a born French horn player, just like her father and her grandfather before her. In order to qualify for the prestigious summer music camp of her dreams, she must expand her musical horizons and join--gasp!--the marching band. There are no French horns in marching band, but there are some very cute boys. Elsie is not so sure she'll survive, but the new friends she's making and the actual fun she's having force her to question her dad's expectations and her own musical priorities.
About the Author
Erin Dionne is an assistant professor of liberal arts at a small college north of Boston, where she teaches freshman comp, lit classes, and some creative writing electives. When not actively promoting her writing with great humor and enthusiastic understanding of the magic and miseries of middle school, Erin reminisces about her days in high school and college marching band. She lives with her husband and daughter in Framingham, Massachusetts.