Shape Up Or Bite Me!

About the Book

1st Caution from Lali, Darrell, Hiro, Connie, Marvin and Beth: Our “peers” may find informative language popping up in this awesome story about us – with way cool illustrations!

It all started when a bunch of research studies said we teens were so unhealthy that the administration at Sun Valley Magnet High School freaked out and we had to take a Health Ed class. The fi rst thing this “newbie” teacher with a bio-food-something-degree did was randomly group us together in four teams, and then we each had to come up with a project that would get the whole student body interested in this miserable subject.

Our team, who really didn’t get along, decided the best way to win this class supremacy contest was to do a documentary of us trying to learn information that was, we thought, a shocking waste of time. What happened to “T1”during the fi lming of what the class called the “T-loser-film” was a very big surprise to all of us!

2nd CAUTION from us: Shape Up or bite me! could cause some health-challenged students to reboot their operating systems.

About the Author

Author Judy Eberhardt lives on the Peninsula in Long Beach, California with her husband Charlie. Her first novel, Shape Up Or Bite Me, was inspired by a teen relative who struggled with weight issues before discovering how to eat healthily. Having once worked for animators Hanna-Barbera, and being involved with script development in the entertainment business in Los Angeles for many years, Judy naturally took this inspiration and turned it into an entertaining and funny story that teaches kids some valuable health lessons along the way.