Looks
Looks by Madeleine George
Meghan is an obese girl who is nearly invisible to everyone in school. Aimee is becoming invisible with her own eating disorder, she’s convinced herself that she’s allergic to everything and is becoming anorexic because she won’t eat anything.
Meghan notices Aimee when they both are in the nurse’s office together. Aimee is completely put off by Meghan’s obesity and goes so far as to write a poem about how hideous she thinks Meghan is.
When Aimee is befriended by the literary magazine’s editor, who then steals Aimee’s poem, Aimee and Meghan become unlikely friends.
This was not a heavy teen issue book but it’s an honest portrayal of how we are all perceived by our looks, the social circles of high school, and how quickly those circles can change.
