Gabi Hernandez is a food loving, overweight, Mexican-American high school senior. In this book she chronicles her life during her senior year with all its joys, difficulties, and tragedies. Her best friends have their own crises, one getting pregnant and the other coming out as gay and getting kicked out by his parents. Through it all Gabi deals with her problems with a restrictive mother and a drug addicted father and her struggles with weight. Her one real joy is the poetry group one of the teachers starts. Through that she finds a real boyfriend and gets accepted to college at UC-Berkeley, her dream school. This story is very well written and really makes you care for the characters and their lives. This is one of the selections for my high school book club and I'm looking forward to discussing it with them.
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