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Entries by Erin Dionne

MODELS DON’T EAT CHOCOLATE COOKIES by Erin Dionne

November 27th, 2008 by Erin Dionne · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: February, 2009
  • Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
  • Release Date: February 5, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0803734-35-7
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0-803732-96-4
Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn't entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she's forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste-because, after all, a thin girl can't be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was that losing weight would help her gain a backbone . . . or that all she needed to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Dial Books for Young Readers · Dionne, Erin · Events · Family · Friendship · Humor · Local · Massachusetts · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · Self-esteem/Self-image