{"id":2981,"date":"2024-10-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:48:55","slug":"starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"Starfish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Lisa Fipps<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Starfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Starfish.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2982\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Year of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she\u2019s been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules\u2013like \u201cno making waves,\u201d \u201cavoid eating in public,\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t move so fast that your body jiggles.\u201d And she\u2019s found her safe space\u2013her swimming pool\u2013where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. It\u2019s also where she can get away from her pushy mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie\u2019s weight will motivate her to diet. Fortunately, Ellie has allies in her dad, her therapist, and her new neighbor, Catalina, who loves Ellie for who she is. With this support buoying her, Ellie might finally be able to cast aside the Fat Girl Rules and starfish in real life\u2013by unapologetically being her own fabulous self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goshen Public Library call number:  <\/strong> JF FIPPS (BOOK-J)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Fipps Year of Publication:\u00a02021 A summary from Goodreads:&nbsp; Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she\u2019s been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}