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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

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By Chris Crutcher
Publisher Greenwillow Books
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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When Sarah Byrnes was three years old, her condition became synonymous with her surname. Her face and hands were badly burned in a mysterious accident, and her father refused to allow reconstructive surgery. She developed a suit of cold, stainless steel armor to defend herself against the taunts of a world insensitive to her pain. You enter into Sarah Byrness world on her terms, or you dont enter.Enter Eric CalhouneMoby to his friends. Eric passed through his early years on a steady diet of Oreos and Twinkies and root beer floats, and he sports the girth to prove it. Because of their terminal uglies, he and Sarah Byrnes have become true masters in the art of underhanded revenge directed at anyone who dares to offend their sensibilities.When Eric turns out for the high school swimming team, he begins to shed layers of extra poundage. Fearing the loss of the one friendship he treasures, he gorges to stay fat for Sarah Byrnes, who discovers his motive and threatens to beat him more senseless than she thinks he already is. Then the truth of Sarah Byrness horrific past finally catches up with her.Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is a darkly funny, suspenseful novel about friendship, fear, and making the best of a bad situation. Once again Chris Crutcher slaps us in the face with compelling questions that demand dignified answers.

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61540 words61,540 words
224 pages224 pages
Lexile 850LLexile 850L
Grade 3 to 9Grade 3 to 9
Age 8-14Age 8-14
Published 1993Published 1993

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Book ISBN:

0688115527

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