Butter by Erin Jade Lange
Butter is a sixteen year old, 423 pound, Scottsdale high school student. Butter likes a girl named Anna, who doesn't know he exists. Not really anyway; she knows JP, her online boyfriend, who is actually Butter. Butter is a badass saxophone player, but keeps that mostly to himself. His mother shows her love through food, which is part of the problem, and his father ignores him because of the weight. Butter is unhappy, so he decides he's going to kill himself by eating himself to death. Some of the "mean" kids at school see his website, and "befriend" him. Of course, they aren't his real friends; they just want to see if Butter is going to go through with it. On some level, Butter knows they aren't really his friends, but he puts up with it because they are finally paying attention to him.
As the day draws near, Butter starts to wonder if he will be able to follow through with his plans. He likes the attention, and, strangely, he has started to lose weight. He just wants to belong.
Will he eat himself to death, or not?
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