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Copy provided by Open Road Media via NetGalley for discussion in a future column on weight issues & bullying in YA. Not really about the latter, but solidly about the former. This is top shelf sports fiction, with shades of Henry IV woven throughout. In this case, Falstaff and Hal are merely two aspects of the same boy, Henry (aka "Biggie"), a gifted, obese heir to sports royalty in his small Iowa town who has never taken interest in sports or standing out among his peers until he discovers almost by accident a nascent talent for pitching. Leaving behind the comfortable margins of adolescent society for the uncomfortable spotlight brings Henry many new challenges. A climactic moment of unguarded self-revelation about Henry's complicated father-son dynamic put a lump in my throat.