About this title: Jill Brenner happily goes along with her fifth-grade classmates as they make fun of an overweight student named Linda. Despite the fact that Linda hasn't done anything to deserve such treatment, she is constantly picked on by the others and nicknamed Blubber. When Jill finally does stand up for Linda, she discovers what it is like to be picked on when Linda's tormentors turn their attentions towards her.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780440407072ISBN:0440407079
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Yearling Books (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780440407072ISBN:0440407079
Description: Fair+ 12mo. {000186} Blubber (Yearling Book Ser. ) by Judy Blume. ISBN 0440407079. Published by Dell Publishing in 1983. TRADE PAPERBACK 12mo Children Bedtime 153pp. {Book Condition} FAIR+ {Book Condition Details} Binding: barely bumped ends, Cover: soiled, barely visible edge wear, soiling, minor staining, Text: dark tanning. {Keywords} GIRLS FICTION CHILDREN S JUVENILE GENERAL WOMEN. read more
"Oh, it was almost excruciating to read Judy Blume's brilliant description of childhood bullying, and how the children turn on each other for petty reasons. The evilness of the main bully almost made me gag several times; for example when she forces the victim to say "I am a big smelly whale" before being allowed to use the bathroom, to show her underwear to the boys or, worst of all, eat chocolate-covered ants. The narrator first joins in on the bullying of one heavy, passive girl who gives a report on blubber. She then finds she is the target when she objects to the unfairness. Her former target turns on her and cozies up to the big bully. The narrator overcomes her bullies by being assertive and by manipulating her enemies--divide and conquer. Judy Blume was ahead of her time in recognizing the sheer evil of bullying and in her nuanced, multilayered portrayal of under-12 social groups and the precariousness of each child's place in them."
"It didn't seem to hold quite the same magic as my first read years and years (and years and years) ago, but the truth is - this was my classroom at that age and in a lot of ways, it's the same classroom now. In some ways kids may be completely different now than they were when I was young... but Judy Blume nailed the feelings of bullying and being bullied with a timelessness that I can only now fully appreciate. This will be one of the books I keep on the shelf in case I ever have bookworm children of my own."
"Judy Blume is just the best youth-book writer of all time. She just exactly captures how young girls think. She must be a fly on the wall in every home and schoolroom, to know what goes on, and how girls talk to one another. This book was another winner for me. I loved all her books, and I read this one a billion times... well, maybe not quite a BILLION, but I read it enough that I can still remember all the characters names and pretty much every chapter. All the bullying, the friends-one-minute-and-not-the-next, the talking behind backs, the moving the desks, the names, the fickleness of young girls... it all comes back to me now... This book is enough to help you understand that that whole painful act is universal."
"Before Lindsey Lohan tried to fit into the "in" crowd in Mean Girls, there was Jill in Judy Blume's story about the viciousness of 5th grade children, Blubber. Blume has a way of depicting the reality of school life - a reality that needs to be out there and talked about. In the case of Blubber, the protagonist, Jill, tries to fit in with the popular girls by picking on Linda, a slightly overweight girl in their class. Really horrible, mean things are done to Linda and there is not much of a happy ending, but it is a realistic portrayal of life in the Tween years. Challenged for: depicting children as evil and cruel without being punished for bad deeds; sexual references; profanity."
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