I loved Isabelle Holland's YA books when I was a teenager. She had fat girls as characters, and didn't feel that it was necessary to improve them into thinness by the end of the book. Instead, they would meet some wise and caring adult who would tell them that the world has a bee in its bonnet about body size and not to worry too much.

As an adult, the plot seemed pretty thin. Perhaps I didn't enjoy this book much because I've become a more sophisticated reader over the last 30 years or so.