Deirdre Riordan Hall

Sugar Deirdre Riordan Hall

Publisher Marketing:"I m the fat Puerto Rican Polish girl who doesn t feel like she belongs in her skin, or anywhere else for that matter. I ve always been too much and yet not enough."Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn t always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. Not as fat as her mama, who is so big she hasn t gotten out of bed in months. Not as heavy as her brother, Skunk, who has more meanness in him than fat, which is saying something. But she s large enough to be the object of ridicule wherever she is: at the grocery store, walking down the street, at school. Sugar s life is dictated by taking care of Mama in their run-down home cooking, shopping, and, well, eating. A lot of eating, which Sugar hates as much as she loves. When Sugar meets Even (not Evan his nearly illiterate father misspelled his name on the birth certificate), she has the new experience of someone seeing "her" and not her body. As their unlikely friendship builds, Sugar allows herself to think about the future for the first time, a future not weighed down by her body or her mother. Soon Sugar will have to decide whether to become the girl that Even helps her see within herself or to sink into the darkness of the skin-deep role her family and her life have created for her." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2015 (EAN 9781477829387, Paperback) School Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 124 (EAN 9781477829387, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 04/27/2015 (EAN 9781477829387, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Hall, Deirdre Riordan During her teens, Deirdre Riordan Hall traveled throughout the United States and Europe, developing a love for stories and a desire to connect with worlds imagined or real on the page. She has written To the Sea, Surfaced, and the Follow Your Bliss series. When not spending time with her family, writing, or traveling, Hall is at the beach, pretending to be a mermaid. Contributor Bio:  Sands, Tara Tara Sands has recorded over sixty audiobooks and has received several Earphones Awards from "AudioFile" magazine. Her voice can also be heard in many cartoons, video games, and commercials.