My One Hundred Adventures

Beginners Welcome

Moonpenny Island

The Steps

You and Your Body

How to Be a Girl in the World

California: Adventures in Time and Place

I, Lorelei

Fat Girls in LA

Veronica May ("Big Vee") is a bubbly, gorgeous, confident, eighteen-year-old theater actress from Chester, Arizona. She is also two hundred pounds. She puts off college, her life, and her questions about her mother's death twelve years earlier to care for her widowed father.

Then Daddy announces that he's going to remarry and Veronica feels replaced. She decides, then and there, it's time for Big Vee to shine! She escapes Arizona and follows in the footsteps of her mother, who was an aspiring actress, to Hollywood.

Between shifts with a cute co-worker at the local coffee bar, Vee auditions, falls in love, dumps a toxic friend, learns to deal with love and loss, and finally, finds her place in the spotlight.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

My One Hundred Adventures

Polly Horvath, 2008

Beginners Welcome

Cindy Baldwin, 2020

Moonpenny Island

Gilbert Ford, Tricia Springstubb, 2015

The Steps

Rachel Cohn, 2003

You and Your Body

Susan Meredith, Kate Needham, Mike Unwin, 1994

How to Be a Girl in the World

A Arter, Caela Carter, 2020

California: Adventures in Time and Place

James A. Banks, Barry K. Beyer, Gloria Cibtreras, 2000

I, Lorelei

Yeardley Smith, 2009