Fat Cat (novel)
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Fat Cat is a young adult novel by Robin Brande.
senior Catherine Locke is overweight
and embroiled in an honors science class, competing with fellow students in a year-long science project. In an effort to beat out her ex-"best friend", the perennial winner of the annual science fair
, Matt McKinley, she proposes adopting the eating habits of prehistoric Homo erectus
. What Cat did not anticipate in her experiment is how her diet would affect her social life as much as her physical health. In the end, it becomes one of those "and they lived happily ever after" kind of stories. The story was inspired by Robin Brande's own physical appearance as a teen.
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High schoolHigh school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
senior Catherine Locke is overweight
Overweight
Overweight is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is a common condition, especially where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary...
and embroiled in an honors science class, competing with fellow students in a year-long science project. In an effort to beat out her ex-"best friend", the perennial winner of the annual science fair
Science fair
A science fair is generally a competition where contestants present their science project results in the form of a report, display board, and models that they have created. Science fairs allow students in grade schools and high schools to compete in science and/or technology activities...
, Matt McKinley, she proposes adopting the eating habits of prehistoric Homo erectus
Homo erectus
Homo erectus is an extinct species of hominid that lived from the end of the Pliocene epoch to the later Pleistocene, about . The species originated in Africa and spread as far as India, China and Java. There is still disagreement on the subject of the classification, ancestry, and progeny of H...
. What Cat did not anticipate in her experiment is how her diet would affect her social life as much as her physical health. In the end, it becomes one of those "and they lived happily ever after" kind of stories. The story was inspired by Robin Brande's own physical appearance as a teen.