Ellen Booraem is the author of The Unnameables, which was an ALA Best Books for Young Adults and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. She lives in Brooklin, Maine.Read an excerpt of 
Small Persons With Wings by Ellen Booraem
Mellie Turpin has been suffering for her entire school career. Not only has she always been teased about being overweight, but she made the mistake of promising her kindergarten class that she’d bring in Fidius, her fairy friend, for show-and-tell. When Fidius disappeared the night before show-and-tell, Mellie was declared a liar and earned the sticky nickname “Fairy Fat.”
Now that she’s thirteen, Mellie has learned to suppress her imagination, but she’s still smart and overweight and she’s still being bullied and ostracized at school.
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