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Starfish lisa fipps book review5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Mom even arranges an appointment with a doctor who wants her to consider surgery.Īnd Ellie hates it that she is a source of conflict between her parents. She won’t buy Ellie new clothes for school, because she wants Ellie to be motivated to lose weight. At home, Ellie’s Mom even goes through her trash to make sure she’s not eating snacks. They duck when she goes by in the hall as if there’s no room for her to pass, and do things much worse when no teacher is looking. But a new girl, Catalina, has moved in next door, and even though she’s thin, she knows how to be a friend.īut Catalina’s going to a different school from Ellie, so Ellie still has to face the same bullies on her own. Except just before school starts, Viv moves to a different part of the country. ![]() Now Ellie only swims by herself or with her best friend Viv. Her mother first put her on a diet when she was four years old, and people at school have called her a whale or “Splash” ever since her fifth birthday party when she did a grand cannonball in the pool. She’s mercilessly bullied – by people at school, but more heartbreakingly, by her own mother and brother. Starfish is a novel in verse about a middle school girl named Ellie who’s fat. Review written May 15, 2021, from a library book Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin Random House), 2021. ![]()
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