Explore TeachingBooks’ collection of activities and resources for Starfish.Read along with an audiobook performance of Starfish.Listen to Lisa Fipps talk about her name.You can click the player below or experience the recording on TeachingBooks, where you can read along as you listen, and also translate the text to another language. Listen to Lisa Fipps talking with TeachingBooks about creating Starfish. Read a longer excerpt from Starfish, by Lisa Fipps. This poignant debut novel-in-verse follows Ellie as she tries to finally cast aside the Fat Girl Rules and be her own fabulous self.įor just a while. Fortunately, Ellie has allies in her dad, her therapist, and her new neighbor, Catalina, who loves Ellie for who she is. It’s also where she can get away from her pushy mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie will motivate her to diet. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules-like “no making waves,” “avoid eating in public,” and “don’t move so fast that your body jiggles.” And she’s found her safe space-her swimming pool-where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. Published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers GroupĮver since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she’s been bullied about her weight.With this support buoying her, Ellie might finally be able to cast aside the Fat Girl Rules and starfish in real life-by unapologetically being her own fabulous self.

It's also where she can get away from her pushy mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie's weight will motivate her to diet. In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules-like 'no making waves,' 'avoid eating in public,' and 'don't move so fast that your body jiggles.' And she's found her safe space-her swimming pool-where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse.Įver since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight.

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