Blubber - Hardcover

Blume, Judy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027110109 ISBN 13: 9780027110104

Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 1982

Synopsis

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Judy Blume's considerable gifts of humor, readability, and child appeal mask her other vocation as teller of moral tales....This time it's Jill Brenner, a fifth grader, who relates how the kids in her class go after Linda Fischer and, led by the savage, unremittingly wicked Wendy, enjoy themselves as she devises new and crueler torments."--The New York Times.

A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year.

From the Inside Flap:

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
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0027110109
• ISBN 13: 9780027110104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160