| Fat Cat | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Robin Brande |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Young-adult fiction |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | 2009 |
| Media type | Print Hardcover |
| Pages | 327pp |
| ISBN | 9780375844492 |
Fat Cat (2009) is a young adult novel by Robin Brande.
High school senior Catherine Locke is overweight and embroiled in an honors science class, competing with fellow students in a year-long science project. In an effort to beat out her ex-"best friend", the perennial winner of the annual science fair, Matt McKinley, she proposes adopting the eating habits of prehistoric Homo erectus. What Cat did not anticipate in her experiment is how her diet would affect her social life as much as her physical health. In the end, it becomes one of those "and they lived happily ever after" kind of stories. The story was inspired by Robin Brande's own physical appearance as a teen.