Reviews"A book packed with messages every teenage girl should hear...This isn't a book you read. It's a book you feel." - YA Books Central Reviewer
"Love. Friendship. Family. Insecurities. A book that showcases the range of emotions suffered by teenage girls. It handles a careful subject with realism and an immense amount of care."- YA Books Central Reviewer |
I lost forty pounds after a stint in fat camp my sophomore year.
Prior to losing weight, most of my time was spent comparing myself to my twin sister and trying to hide my cankles.
However, losing weight changed everything.
Now, I’m popular, vying for the hottest guy in school, and competing for a prom queen nomination. Finally, I’m getting noticed, and it’s all because I dropped the pounds.
Everything I ever wanted is right at my fingertips.
If only I could lose more weight, and I’d be perfect.
But my friend Jake tells me I want all the wrong things. He thinks I’m already perfect.
Sometimes you can’t see what’s right in front of you. Like how I’m spiraling in a deadly game of self-acceptance.
Or how, despite being my best friend’s brother, Jake has always been the one to catch me when I fall.
Can he catch me again? Or am I too far gone?
If you like emotional contemporary YA, you will fall in love with Souders' heart-wrenching novel. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall, More Than a Number raises thought-provoking questions about love and acceptance, as well as the cost of beauty.
*Previously titled Something of Substance*
Prior to losing weight, most of my time was spent comparing myself to my twin sister and trying to hide my cankles.
However, losing weight changed everything.
Now, I’m popular, vying for the hottest guy in school, and competing for a prom queen nomination. Finally, I’m getting noticed, and it’s all because I dropped the pounds.
Everything I ever wanted is right at my fingertips.
If only I could lose more weight, and I’d be perfect.
But my friend Jake tells me I want all the wrong things. He thinks I’m already perfect.
Sometimes you can’t see what’s right in front of you. Like how I’m spiraling in a deadly game of self-acceptance.
Or how, despite being my best friend’s brother, Jake has always been the one to catch me when I fall.
Can he catch me again? Or am I too far gone?
If you like emotional contemporary YA, you will fall in love with Souders' heart-wrenching novel. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall, More Than a Number raises thought-provoking questions about love and acceptance, as well as the cost of beauty.
*Previously titled Something of Substance*