Mirror, Mirror

In this part of the book Gordo is shooting a music video with Lizzie and Miranda. Miranda sees some of the shots and gets the idea that she is fat and so she goes on a severe diet. She eats almost nothing, collapses once at Lizzie's home and gets made at Lizzie when she says something about it to her.

She finally admits she has a lot of things she having to deal with and stops her type of dieting. The story is concerned with early anorexia nervosa, an extremely serious eating disorder of young girls (primarily) and, at least in this case, the problem is solved by the person opening up to someone else about their problems.

( I have reviews of some books on this in my young adult section, "serious issues" portion.)

This part was based on Episode 39, Inner Beauty.

One of the funniest lines in this part of the story is "Ethan had the brains of a bread crumb."

There are two themes going on in this part of the story. First, Gordo asks a girl to go to a dance with him but she turns him down since she feel's he's too short and Gordo keeps trying to compensate for that.

The second theme is Matt having to do a report on his family's ancestors, a report in which he feels truth is of no importance, claiming his family descends from George Washington through Davy Crockett on through Elvis.

(note: Granted, I really don't like the Matt character, but I think in this case the teacher should have said something. How could the teacher have even begun to believe such a story as he spun? He really should have failed the assignment.)

Gordo has a talk with a substitute teacher who tries to tell him that being short is not the end of the world and those who judge people by their height aren't really the type of people Gordo should be interested in anyhow.

The girl who turned Gordo down ends up apologizing to him and does end up dancing with him and Lizzie ends up being jealous.

This part is based on Episode 46, A Gordo Story.

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