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Title	:	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Author	:	Chris Crutcher
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	March 18th 2003 by Greenwillow Books (first published March 1993)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Teen. Sports. Contemporary. Coming Of Age

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Chris Crutcher

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 13234 Users | 1234 Reviews

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Sarah Byrnes and Eric Calhoune have been friends for years. When they were children, his weight and her scars made them both outcasts. Now Sarah Byrnes—the smartest, toughest person Eric has ever known—sits silent in a hospital. Eric must uncover the terrible secret she’s hiding before its dark current pulls them both under. Will appeal to fans of Marieke Nijkamp, Andrew Smith, and John Corey Whaley.

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Original Title:	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
ISBN:	0060094893 (ISBN13: 9780060094898)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eric Calhoune, Sarah Byrnes
Setting:	Washington (state)(United States)
Literary Awards:	California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult (1997)

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Wow. I read this because another ELA teacher, grade 10 at another school, requires that her students read this. It was highly recommended by her years ago, and I found a copy and remembered. I wasn't hooked right away, and there was almost enough swimming/sport focus to ruin it, but there was enough drama to keep me interested. Eventually, there was no putting this down. We have intelligent male characters with great adult role models, much like John Green usually provides. Intelligent banter,

If anyone is looking for a new hero I think it should be Sarah Byrnes. She has had a tough life and does something drastic to avoid more horror! I loved how Eric stood by her and did what he could to help her, even when things started to get dicey. I also loved that when Eric realized he was in over his head he went to a respected adult for help and she was able to do what was right and help Sarah instead of following the rules.The other drama in the book was interesting. At times it seemed over

I heard Mr. Crutcher speak once I believe at ALA. He writes YA sports fiction but he was a family therapist and child protection specialist before he became a writer, and far too much of the horrible stuff in his books are things he heard from teens. He is fierce about the need to give young people tools to help them better their lives. I've been going through my books hoping to find books I could discard. Not this one. I remembered the general outlines and it still had me on the edge of my seat

This book is a slow starter, and at first, I thought it was going to be a pretty typical story of high school outcasts: the fat kid and the badly scarred girl who are best friends provide each other a sanctuary from the rest of the world. Midway through, though, the book gets into some pretty heady issues: suicide, abortion, religion, child abuse. The characters' experiences and the way Crutcher tells them definitely make the reader think -- especially the in=class argument about abortion and

Summary Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is a book about extreme friendship and trust. When Sarah Byrnes, a horribly scarred girl ends up silent in Sacred heart Hospital, it's up to Eric Calhoune to figure out what's going on. Eric Calhoune has been friends with Sarah Byrnes for years, and has no idea why she has gone silent. But Sarah isn't the only thing Eric has to worry about, he has to stay up to date with his intense swimming, and school."Twenty-five yards. Anyone hear me say all out? No

Eric Calhoune is an overweight whale of a swimmer... so of course everyone knows him as "Moby."Sarah Byrnes is outspoken, angry, and awesome, with burns on her face and her hands... so of course she insists that everyone call her by both her first and last name. Never just Sarah; always Sarah Byrnes. It's a pretty cruel coincidence that her surname is Byrnes, yes, but Sarah Byrnes embraces it as much as a person can be expected to.It's a strange friendship, the one that exists between Moby and

I read Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes when I was taking a young adult literature class in college. I'd just finished reading Chinese Handcuffs, also by Crutcher, and even though I'm not interested in sports at all, I really enjoyed it. Feeling in the mood for some more angst, but wary of the emphasis on sports in a lot of his books, I decided swimming would be an interesting sport to read about and picked up Staying Fat. It wasn't bad. In fact, it was very similar to other books of Crutcher's I've