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Butter (2012)

by Erin Jade Lange(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1599907801 (ISBN13: 9781599907802)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Bloomsbury

review 1: Butter by Erin Jade Lange is about a depressed and obese boy who got the nickname "Butter" by a group of bullies. Butter gets constantly picked on, and he has no friends at his school, but he really likes a beautiful, popular girl named Anna. Butter is too afraid to talk to her in real life because hes worried that she will make fun of his weight problem. So Butter made an account on an online social media, and pretended to be someone named J.P. so he can talk to Anna. Anna really likes J.P., she wants to meet him, but Butters is trying to lose a big portion of his 420 pound body before he talks to her in real life. While this is happening, his friend is pressuring him to go out of state to a boarding school for people with weight issues. Butter can't handle everything and... more he plans to eat himself to death live on the internet, for the whole school to watch. But when he announces his live suicide, all of a sudden he becomes popular and starts hanging out with the "cool kids". I loved this book because I think that not everyone knows what it's like to be the one kid in school that everyone picks on. I think this book teaches you that even when you're at an all time low, there will always be someone there for you that loves you, and you should never give up hope. I would recommend this book to teenagers.
review 2: I think every high school student should read books about bullying. Butter is no exception. It has an interesting premise - an overweight boy with a talent for the saxophone who gets picked on at school. After an incident in the school cafeteria, Butter decides to make a website and eat himself to death on New Years Eve. A group of boys who used to pick on him sort of befriends him for their own sick enjoyment. After confessing to being the mysterious internet boyfriend for a classmate that he's in love with, Butter actually tries to go through with the suicide attempt. A lot of redemption happens, and its actually just a wonderful book. Recommend! less

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