In the world today, images of beauty are everywhere you turn. Pictures of muscular macho males and thin beautiful females fill magazines, television and the music business. Women go through diets faster than they go through socks. Men are at the gym, striving for that toned body they think is the an...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This inspiring story is about a 14-year-old who goes on a diet and is transformed from being overweight and insecure to a normal sized teen who becomes the school soccer star. ... Books, dolls, weight loss programs, commercials, fashion shows and magazine images all give girls this connection between thinness and happiness, or thinness and fun. ...

• Word Count: 2911
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School