The Earth, My Butt, & other BIG Round Things BY Carolyn Mackler

So this book is about a 15 year old girl named Virgina Shreves. She isn't the skinniest girl .. okay so shes 'plumpy', a straight A student and she has a picture perfect family, until her parents receive a phone call.

OKAAY , so first things first, Virginia is 'plumpy' and shes blond .. completely different from her family. Besides the straight A's they have nothing else in common. Virginia believes that she was swapped at birth. WHY ? .......
MUM - is addicted to exercising and is a successful adolescent psychologist.
DAD - when not jet-setting, or golfing in Connecticut with mum, he ogles skinny women on TV. ANAIS - Oldest sibling, 24, skinny with beautiful brown hair, joined the Peace Corps and moved to Africa.
BYRON - Only boy, 19, slim, brilliant, sophomore at Columbia and is Virginia's idol.

Because both siblings attended Brewster and Virginia hates being compared to them, on top of that, her best friend Shannon is in Washington, so school sucks for her.

Virginia over hears three very MEAN girls talk about her and how they would rather die then be as fat as her. This brings her down and makes her self conscious. Then her brother says something about a shirt being too tight or something, and that's when she decides to go on a diet. This decision is also made because her mother wont get off her back about exercising.
One day her parents receive a call from Columbia. They are shocked to find out what Byron had done (not saying :p) After Virginia finds out, her big brother isn't her hero anymore.
After somethings go down, Virginia decides that she only wanted to go on the diet because of what people thought of her. Eventually Virginia breaks out of her shell, gets an eyebrow piercing, dyes her hair purple and stands up to both Byron and her Mum.

This book made me see how people can have a huge impact on how you feel about yourself. Also how teens change, just so other people approve of them. This book made me realise that there is no point for you to change or become someone else if the only reason your changing is for others, not yourself.
I liked the characters in this book, all so different but yet all the same, if you get what I mean .. hmm like they all saw Virginia through eyes that only cared about her appearance.
Overall i think this book deserved a 7/10
For those 13+