Round
By Rebecca Gall
A young adult novel ...
excerpt
Did you know there are 1,111 calories in a single large Whipped Frescoffee, and that's without adding extra milk or sugar? O.K., so maybe it's more like 527 calories, but you get the idea. I've calculated that in order to lose another ten pounds by Christmas, I have to cut my intake to 1,200 calories per day max. That means if I slip and have two Whipped Frescoffees I'm basically done for the day. How am I supposed to lose weight when I wake up every morning frothing at the mouth for my next sinful sip?
A welcome gush of warm air greets me as I step inside, shutting out the chilly fall morning and the smell of burning leaves. I toss my empty cup in the trashcan by the door before proceeding down the hallway, all the while keeping my head down. It's better if I can't see them. All the girls at school are slender rectangles with pencils for arms and legs. Except me. I'm a pear like my mom with thick cylinders in place of pencils. Why couldn't I have inherited her straight blond hair instead of her curvy figure? At least I got boobs out of the deal. The rectangles weren't so lucky, that is until Dr. Hartford, plastic surgeon extraordinaire, began offering his two-for-one special last year. A new crop of ever-so-perky boobs seems to have emerged since then.
synopsis
Sixteen-year-old Tess Braman's main goal in life is to become a rectangle--skinny and curve-less like the rest of the girls at Dwyer High. She's convinced that once she manages to do that it will be a cinch to steal hottie Jackson Poole away from his cheating rectangle girlfriend. Tess will do anything to lose the weight, including sacrificing her beloved Whipped Frescoffees, to drop that last ten pounds ... twenty pounds would be even better. Her best friend Lacey has already achieved rectangle status, thanks to the assistance of Lap-Band surgery. If Lacey can do it, surely Tess can, too. But what happens when Tess's obsession with weight loss goes one step too far?