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Holding Up The Universe By Jennifer Niven
Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven is a fiction drama, that also includes romance. The main character Libby Strout, returns to high school after being the talk of the town and labeled America's Fattest Teen. Whilst dealing with the death of her mother and taking care of her father, she now has to deal with the added pressure of Martin Van Buren High School. Besides being the hottest topic in school, Jack Masselin and his friends pulling a prank, ending with both serving in detention. Through having to interact with one another in skill building exercises, they begin to grow closer despite how they first met. Both teens soon start to like each other while Jack opens up about his prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces, to Libby.
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