A review by bitterindigo
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

4.0

I googled a list of banned or challenged books for a reading challenge and found this at random, but I really, really liked it. I read some reviews that criticized it as formulaic, but I didn't find that at all. I like the way body-shaming is placed as something that is done by people who have their own issues, and the doctor character is fantastic - this is the kind of doctor I hope my daughter would have if she ever wanted to talk weight loss. It's very frank about adolescent sexuality and rape culture also. Really well done.