Slob by Ellen Potter

Slob by Ellen Potter

*A sensitive, touching, and sometimes heartbreakingly funny picture of middle school life.--School Library Journal, starred review

Outrageously funny and smart, this story of an obese boy who takes on his bullies is as heartwarming as it is clever.

Twelve-year-old Owen Birnbaum is the fattest kid in school. But he also invents cool contraptions--like a TV that can show the past--because there is something that happened two years ago which he needs to see if he ever hopes to unravel a dreadful mystery.

But inventor or not, there is a lot Owen can't figure out. Like how his Oreos keep disappearing from his lunch. Or why his sister suddenly wants to be called by a boy's name. Or why a diabolical, scar-faced bully at school seems to be on a mission to destroy him. He's sure that if only he can get the TV to work, things will start to make sense. But it will take a revelation, not a cool invention, for Owen to see that the answer is not in the past, but the present. That no matter how large he is on the outside, he doesn't have to feel small on the inside.

With her trademark humor, Ellen Potter has created a larger-than-life character and story whose weight is immense when measured in heart.

Praise for Slob

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Potter delicately and confidently delivers a pitch-perfect story of self-worth . . . . This is a book for everyone: smart, devious, overweight, underweight, shy, courageous and everyone in between. --The Children's Book Review

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780399247057
ISBN 10	039924705X
Title	Slob
Author	Ellen Potter
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2009-05-14
Number of pages	208
Prizes	Commended for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2010, Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2015, Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2013, Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Junior Book) 2011, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2011, Short-listed for Charlotte Award (Middle School/Grades 6-8) 2012, Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Middle School) 2012, Short-listed for Colorado Blue Spruce Award 2014, Short-listed for Sequoyah Book Awards (Intermediate) 2012
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.