Blubber

Hardcover, 168 pages

English language

Published Dec. 1, 2002 by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books.

ISBN:
978-0-689-84974-9
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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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Subjects

  • Social Issues - Friendship
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Children: Grades 4-6
  • Social Issues - General
  • Social Issues - Adolescence
  • Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / General
  • Fiction
  • Schools