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Fat Camp Commandos Go West
by Daniel Pinkwater Illustrated by Andy Rash Rapph and Sylvia Nebula, fat kids, meet Mavis Goldfarb at a fat-camp. Mavis moves them through adventures, including making fun of skinny people and becoming actors. But the ultimate adventure comes when Mavis arranges for aliens to visit planet earth. The aliens, of couse, are fat people.
This book parodies a lot of things. It parodies solemn writing styles, which it uses in extreme, and therefore absurd, ways. It parodies weight loss programs, and alien sightings, and health nuts.
Happy reading.