Blubber

Author - Judy Blume ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Yearling was reviewed on 10-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Blubber by Yearling. I ordered multiple copies of this book before I read it and now I am sorry I did. Although the book captures bullying at its worst, I must say I was disappointed that there was no resolution to the pain and suffering Linda experienced at the hands of her classmates. I found it unrealistic for Linda to then join Wendy in tormenting other students. As for Jill, the tables were turned on her, but she never truly understood the pain she also caused Linda. There were never any apologies or consequences for the action of the students in this book. I had planned to put this book in my classroom library, but I will not due to some of the language used in the text. Call me old fashioned, but calling a teacher a __tch is not necessary, and neither is some of the other language that is sprinkled throughout the text.¤

2) Paperback Book Blubber by Yearling. The story is surrounds the experiences of being a bully and being bullied by them. The main character is Jill, who is in the group of girls who bullies this girl, Linda who they dubbed as "Blubber" because of her essay about whales. It grew from just an inside joke to the rest of their peers, making Linda´s life a living hell.

I spent reading this book emotionally. I actually feel like wringing some of the characters´ necks! This would be one of the good books out there to introduce to the kids the problem of bullying and how to handle them in such a young age. Nevertheless the ending is kind of disturbing to be since there doesn´t seem to be a justification to the story itself. The adults too doesn´t seem to be much involved in trying to work out the bullying problem, which is kind of a shame. Nevertheless it´s a good read.¤

3) Paperback Book Blubber by Yearling. Got a girl or boy picking on someone in their class? Give them this book! Easy to read and relate to (from a child´s perspective). Really puts you in their shoes to see how it feels when someone is mean to you for no good reason. If your kid is BEING picked on for being overweight or anything else, this is also good for them to teach them that they need to speak up for themselves, and so they don´t feel alone.¤

4) Paperback Book Blubber by Yearling. _Blubber_ by Judy Blume shows the twists and turns in Jill´s life. Jill is friends with Wendy and Carolina. They would always tease and pick on Linda because she was bigger than the other girls. later Jill and wendy get into a fight which broke up their friendship. The next day Wendy befriended Linda just to make Jill jealous. They started to tease and pick on Jill just like they did with Linda. But then Jill stood up for herself and broke up Wendy, Linda and Carolina. Yet, the narrative is completely engaging.¤

5) Paperback Book Blubber by Yearling. Jill thinks it´s funny when all the fifth-grade girls gang up on Linda, an unpopular overweight classmate. She even contributes the nickname "Blubber," courtesy of a class report on whales given by Linda herself.

But the tables turn when Jill suddenly finds herself on the wrong end of the girls´ cruelty...with even Linda herself seeming to forget what she´s just experienced, and joining in the torment on Jill.

This book is a page-turningly perfect depiction of the cruelty of adolescent girls, sadly unavoidable in most classrooms across the country and the decades...¤

6) Paperback Book Blubber by Yearling. 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 starts. There´s something about Linda that makes a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they can go -- but nobody, least of all Jill, expects the fun to end where it does.

A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year¤

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