
Today we are thrilled to reveal the cover for Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado. The book will be released on February 2, 2021, by Holiday House. Preorder here!
Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: Be smaller. Be quieter. She’s too brown for the white kids and too white for her brown family. When a cute guy asks her out, her life becomes a rom com—until she learns he asked out her slim, popular, athletic best friend first. UGH. Is she EVERYONE’S second choice? Does anyone ACTUALLY see her? Fat chance.
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega is a funny and painfully accurate coming-of-age story by debut author Crystal Maldonado that tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves.
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