Recommendation: "The Little Giant Of Aberdeen County" is a heartwarming coming-of-age tale that celebrates body positivity. It follows Truly Plaice, who struggles with her size and the town's expectations of her. The book's most unique feature is its exploration of the beauty of diversity. Highly recommended for readers looking for a feel-good, inspirational story.

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• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)

"But this can't be right. You're a little giant!"Truly Plaice - part behemoth, part witch, part Cinderella - is born larger than life into a small-minded town. Her birth rocks the pillars of tiny Aberdeen, New York, and breaks her family into smithereens.She spends a painful childhood in the shadow of her older sister Serena's beauty, and is teased mercilessly for her enormous physique. But when Serena unexpectedly vanishes and leaves her son in Truly's care, Truly must become mistress of a house she did not choose and the unwilling victim of her brother-in-law, Dr. Robert Morgan. Once her childhood tormentor, he now subjects her to brutal criticism and cruel medical experiments that test her endurance past breaking point - but Truly may have more power than he realises...Tiffany's Baker's debut is a rare and bewitching novel, with a heart as big as its heroine.

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