Blubber
1974 • 160 pages
Ratings8
Average rating3.8
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Ratings8
Average rating3.8
Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween.
But Robby grabs the note, and before Linda stops talking it has gone halfway around the room.
That's where it all started...there was something about Linda that made a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they could go...but nobody, Jill least of all, expected the fun to end where it did.
--back cover
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This is still so good. No other book that I have read puts the reader so subtly and comfortably in the role of bully and then pulls the rug out from under the reader's feet so well. It makes its point without being at all preachy, and I love that the ending isn't all sunshine and flowers.
