- Juvenile Fiction, Social Themes, Bullying, Peer Pressure
Blubber is a children's novel by Judy Blume first published in 1974. The narrator of the story is Jill Brenner, a Pennsylvania fifth-grader who joins her classmates in ostracizing and bullying Linda, an awkward and overweight girl. Linda gives an oral class report about whales and is hence nicknamed "Blubber" by her peers.
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Classical in form, earnest, intimate and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Judy Blume
- First published
- October 1999
- Pages
- 153
- Publisher
- American School Pub, Laurel Leaf Library, Piper
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- French, und, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780434928828
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Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as racism (*Iggie's House*), menstruation (*Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.*), divorce (*It's Not the End of the World, Just As Long As We're Together*), bullying (*Blubber*), masturbation (*Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won't*) and teen sex (*Forever*), and as such have been the source of controversy over the appropriateness of such topics for her middle school audience. She is married with two children and a st
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