My Book Report!

So I realize I haven't really posted lately, that's because we are starting a new project on Photo Story. We are doing a book report. My book is The Melting of Maggie Bean. It's about an overweight girl and her friend Aimee. Aimee is a very supportive friend, a really good athlete, but she is doing pretty bad in school. So, the point of this book is that Aimee wants Maggie, the chocoholic, to join the Water Wings, the school syncro swim club, but Maggie is REALLY self conscious about her weight. She ends up using excuses like homework when Aimee pleads her to join with her. But is that really her only reason?? No, Maggie's father lost his job, so he is at home alot... When he decides to put Maggie in Pound Patrollers, a local weight-loss club, with her Aunt Violetta, Maggie is a total wreck. When she realizes that she wants to join the Water Wings, she literally starves herself, and overworks herself down in weight from her old 186 to a 170, she is sure she can make it on the team. Well after she froze herself practising routine in Mud Puddle Lake, behind her Pound Patrollers friend Arnie's cabin, starved herself, and literally also worked herself to death (aka busted her butt) just to fit into the Water Wings silver, two piece uniform... she knew she could make it... That didn't happen though, after busting her butt, she didn't make it! Aimee did, but she didn't... At the part in the book that I'm at, Maggie gives up on EVERYTHING! She goes back to her old weight a 186, after eating all the candy and chocolate she could. She just let go... Everything gone. I wouldn't be able to do that... But I am totally sucked into this book. Ya know what? You should read this as soon as I'm done!!

*Lauran*