Bathing Ugly

Rebecca Busselle, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-20921-8

Overweight Betsy, 13, learns some important truths about herself and her seemingly self-possessed camp-mates; in PW 's words, ``Readers will appreciate the realistic results of Betsy's unreal expectations, and the author's resisting of pat solutions.'' Ages 10-up. (July)

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