The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

AMAZING!!! READ!!!!

This book is wonderful. It keeps you interested and you never know what will happen next. Throughout the book it shows the struggles that an overwieght teenager overcomes. She has to deal with mean classmates, family drama, and her mother stressing her about her wieght. This book is not really for anyone below the age of 12 years old. It has some interesting parts in it that are not appropriate. I love this book because i can relate to it. The Earth My Butt and Other Round Things really caught my eye, by the name of course. I was so glad that i picked it up. At times i couldnt put the book down. I really reccomend you to read this. It is an amazing book.

5 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

Great read

I love this biok i can realy relate because i have a wieght problem my self ( and i have a big butt)

2 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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Awesome book!

read this now!

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Living in a thick world?

Imagine that your life is full of perfect people, people who dress proper, have million of friends, always have something interesting to say or are simply on top of the world day after day but yet you don't seem to fit in. That's the story of Virginia Shreves, a high school girl whose family is very successful considering her dad is an executive ogle who searches for thin woman on TV and her mom is a psychologist who is obsessed with weight. Her brother Byron and her sister Anais are both successful and fit but she feels like she is the fly in the soup or more like it, a fat cockroach. Virginia is thicker than most average high school girls. Although she is quiet and very shy she has a secret crush on her friend Froggy Welsh the Fourth. They sneak around in her room sometimes after school but even after all that time she's always been terrified by the simple thought of him looking under her shirt. Virginia has a weight problem therefore she lives under the "Fat Girl Code of Conduct." She lives depress as she feels ostracized from everyone around keeping in mind that her best friend moved away to Walla Walla. It's obvious that no one has stopped and thought about her well being and everyone lives in their own world. Until one day something changed everything abruptly and the perfect family picture came crushing down. It was then when she realized that she don't have a weight problem, people have a problem with her weight.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

YAY! I LOOOOOVE THIS BOOK!

Virginia Shreves is a larger-than-average teenage girl who invented the "Fat Girl Code Of Conduct." Her best friend Shannon, one of her only friends, moves to Walla Walla, Washington and Virginia has to deal with lots of struggles while she is gone. In the book Virginia Shreves hates going to school because everybody in her school is super skinny, and she is bigger than the rest of them. Shannon, her best friend moves to Washington and buys Virginia a shirt. Froggy Welsh is one of her guy friends. He is a really big jock. All the girls like him, and Virginia and Froggy has things going on. Virginia is afraid that Froggy will get up her shirt. Virginia's mom is a very successful adolescent physiologist and her Dad is always jet-setting in Connecticut, so her parents are never home. Her parents are always driving her brother and her sister places and never has time for Virginia. The family was going great until Virginias brother called home and said he was kicked out of school. =]This book was really good, especially for teenagers because they might relate to this book. This book was so amazing! I loved it a lot. This book is really funny. It truly kept me hooked in the book and I don't like reading. It was hard to put the book down and stop reading. I've never done that with a book before.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things

Have you ever read the book The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things? If not, this may be a book for you.
The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things is about a girl who has weight, relationship, and family problems. When Virginia has her first serious relationship it all falls apart. When Virginia's brother goes to school he gets in trouble and has to go back home and live with his parent and sister. The goal is to teach teens about some of the problems they may face as a teenager.
The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things is an awesome book I think you should take the chance and read it. When I read The Earth My Butt and Other Big Round Things I thought it was a very entertaining and humorous book, in fact I read it in two days!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Great Connecting Story

This book is a brilliant way of connecting real life with stories. A story about a teen that is struggling with her weight and social life it tells about how everybody struggles and ways of getting through it are everywhere you just need to look. Some of her problems I think a lot of teens can connect to the problem with communication with family really relatable. I was not a fan of the ending in this book. It kind of just left me hanging and waiting for this great ending to a great book but that just didn¿t happen.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is about Virginia Shreeves, a freshman in highschool w

This book is about Virginia Shreeves, a freshman in highschool who deals with everyday things. Boys, Homework, and Mean Girls. Something else she has to deal with though? Her weight. Her family is no help either considering both of her older siblings are some of the most well-known people at her school when they attended, and her mom and dad expect the same thing from her. Also, her bestfriend and only bestfriend just moved to Walla Walla, Washington! You learn about what she has to deal with for her freshman year and how she gets through it all. I loved this book! I like the story line behind it and how the author wrote it. Every chapter ended well and it kept on making you want to read on and on. I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 13 because some parts get really graphic and aren’t appropriate for kids under the age of 13!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Awesome

After i read this i recomeded it to all my friends as i recomend thi to you. Read it! Walla Walla WA and Froggy have become privite jokes. If you read the book you under stand.

This book is great

I really love this book & i love the way it started. By the way what are some other intrestinq books like this

0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

LOVE IT!

Absolutely the BEST book ever!I can relate!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

best book ever you must read!

the authors purpose for writing this book was so that she could inform the readers that its ok to be overweight ans that you should not hurt your body at all beacause of your overweight. Since virginnia has an older brother and sister byran and anai's.byran attendsand was acussed of date rapeing a girl on campuss so he was suspended for the rest of the semester and had to move back home in wich virgina is kinda scared to talk to him. virginas older sister anai's is in kenya helping out and she has had know clue on what was going on untill victoria wrote her a letter telling what was happening wich was a big deal because,her mom didnt want anai's to know anything.victoria has also had some romance in her life his name is.... but everyone just calls hom froggy, anyways froggy has been coming over every tuesday and they have been fooling around at her apartment in new york. since her parents are never home its pretty easy. since byran has come home they havent really talk much since victoria is just not up to it anymore to be more then just friends with benifets, but soon enough she realizes that fruggy wants the same thing. and just to top things off her teacher has died mr.... wich doesnt help her problems at all.at the end of all this shes has lurned a valubale lession,that she should not harm herself in anyway just because shes overweight, that she should be happy and not upset she shuld get up out of the house and not want to stay in the house all day. most of all you should be happy with who you are not want to be someone else just to so you can be more popullar or stand out more.

From an Above-Average-Weight Girl

I really related with Virginia on the pressures of fitting on. My family is not so particular about weight but I am. This book made me cry and laugh with Virginia. This is my first time reading a novel by this author buy I am glad I did. Definetly a good read. And remember- nobody's perfect. :-)

Fantastic!

This book is soo good! It only took me about four days to read because i just couldn't stop! I loved virginia and her realistic situation! Great story!!!!

Best book ever!!!!!!

I loved the book because it showed me that you choose your own path in life not anyone else. The main character, Virginia, learns that you can gain confidence no matter what you look like or believe.

Ehhhh ok

This book was just ok probably just not what i expected

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

You have to read this!!!!

I was at my school library and I picked this up because the cover was pink and grey and I am the type of person that picks up a book if it has a pretty color. I really wasn't planning on reading this book but one day I had no choice because if we didn't take something out to read we were going to get in trouble so I started reading this and I didn't put it back down! No one had ever read the book, I was the first one and so I had like 2 other girls asking me to lend them this book when I was finished! This book was really popular among girls in my 6th grade year!

Great book!

I loved this book. It's a funny girly book. I think every girl with any sort of sell esteem issue should take the time to read this book< I found it to be a real eye opener.

Lovely:)

I actually enjoyed reading this book! I think I read it in 4 days. A bit too quick since school and living far away from school kept me busy but still a great read! There were some parts that I could have related to the character! Very emotional yet realistic! Sounds like a true story! And I bet it couldhappen to any young girl (teens) ! I simpley loved it! & Have recommended to a friend or 2! Great read

go Virginia!

I'll confess. I bought this book because of it's amusing title. But I'd read and enjoyed a couple of Mackler's other books so I pretty much knew what to expect. I was not disappointed.

The heroine of this story, 15 year old Virginia Shreves, is overweight and has major self confidence issues. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her family, who are slim and popular over-achievers. Everything changes for Virginia when she learns that her older brother, who she worships, is suspended from Columbia University for doing something pretty horrible. Virginia's earth shatters but she learns a great deal about her family and herself.

This book really comes from the heart. Virginia is a character a girl could really sympathize with. Publisher's Weekly says, "The heroine's transformation into someone who finds her own style and speaks her own mind is believable - and worthy of applause." When I read this it was just what I was in the mood for. A nice quick read with a happy ending.