Fat Kid Rules the World / K. L. Going / 187 pages / October Challenge Banned Books

Troy Billings is 6'1" and 296 pounds and is so discouraged with his life as the fat kid that he contemplates suicide on the subway tracks.  His attempt is interrupted by Curt MacCrae, an "emaciated, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a dropout legend at Troy's high school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan."  Curt decides that Troy will be the drummer for his new band, Rage/Tectonic, although Troy hasn't played drums since junior high school.  Curt arranges for lessons and Big T vomits all over the stage during their first gig.  Disgusting?  Yes! ... and filled with inappropriate language.  There are noteworthy themes at work in this novel, but I wouldn't recommend this one.