Jeanne, Up and Down

By Jane Miner

Subjects: Girls, fiction, Children's fiction

Description: **Jeanne feels like food is her only friend.** Jeanne's mother is promoted to a new job in distant San Francisco. Jeanne's best friend moves away, and her usually wonderful stepmother is turning into a real nag. *And* Jeanne has fallen in love with David, who never even notices her. No wonder food comes first with Jeanne. More than anything Jeanne wants to play Juliet to David's Romeo in her high school's production of *Romeo and Juliet*. Everyone agrees she has the most talent - but does she have the willpower to lose enough weight in time for the auditions? After all, the Juliet Jeanne has in mind is at least 50 pounds thinner.... [text from book jacket]