This is an excellent book to give to any pre-adolescent female who is going away to cummer camp. It tells the problems and inner turmoil an overweight girl suffers when she goes away to summer camp for the first time. The story will teach a child about having compassion and sensitivity to others. Girls who may feel awkward and unattractive can identify with the protagonist's plight and begin to understand how often females are judged solely by their appearances hence the named Bathing Ugly instead of Bathing Beauty.

This is the book to read, regardless of body type/size. Readers will emphasive with the overweight protaganist surrounded by body concious girls at her summer camp. An amusing and realistic point of view, this book will appeal to young readers for sure.