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Ralph looked away from me to another guy. "What do you think, Scott—a seven?" Scott looked me up and down. "Seven? Maybe." "Maybe on a good day," said another guy. "A really good day? Like last Friday?" Ralph replied. They were all laughing again. "You guys are pigs," I said. Jujube is thrilled when Brent asks her out. She is not so happy when the rumors start flying at school. Pretty soon her name is showing up on bathroom walls and everyone is snickering and sniping. When her mother gets involved, Jujube's reputation takes another hit. Deciding that someone has to take a stand, Jujube gathers all the other girls who are labelled sluts—and worse—and tries to impress on her fellow students the damage that can be done by assigning a label that reduces a person to an object. Beth Goobie is an award-winning author of a number of books for teens. Her book Before Wings, won the CLA YA Book Award, was a Governor General's Award nominee, an ALA Best Book nominee and a Teen Top Ten.
Going on a date with the boy you have had a crush on seems like the ultimate night, right? Well, what happens when the next day that boy spreads lies about what the two of you did on that date? Now you find yourself in the middle of gossip, the butt end of jokes, and no longer looked at in the same way you were before. High school can be a tough learning ground, just ask Trudy, or Jujube, as her friends call her. Going on a date with Brent seemed like the best news she could ever have, but she soon found out that people don't call him "Mr. Warp Speed" for nothing. After rejecting his advances and thinking everything was fine between them, Jujube soon discovers that dating can be a much more complex activity than she could ever have thought possible. Soon, the entire school thinks that she is "easy." This book provides a realistic picture of what can happen and often does happen in high schools across the United States. It is a compelling story of how one girl fights to overcome the stigma one boy's word creates and to rebuild her self-esteem. 2002, Orca Book Publishers,
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Tony Mason
reviewed Sticks and Stones on January 17, 2013 Sticks and Stones
Jujube is a freshman girl in school and for the first time a popular boy that she has liked for a long time now is asking her to the Valentine's Day dance, Brent. When they go to the dance Brent doesn't just want to dance, he wants to go out to his car to get "something". As they're outside in Brent's car they move to the back seat were things start to get a little out of hand. Jujube doesn't want it to end up this way. They go back inside to the dance.
At school, Monday, Jujube is getting teased because she was in the back seat with Brent. She keeps hearing jokes about how she was a "perfect ten" "you're a pro" and "how amazingly fast you were". Jujube doesn't understand. After awhile she realizes that she's been hearing these jokes because they're about her and Brent. She's been getting called a slut and now she's is worried about how she looks everyday because she doesn't want to come off as a "slut".
"Sticks and Stones" by Beth Goobie is such a great book because it explains what rumors can do to people and how it can affect their life in and out of school. People don't understand how other people can hurt each other with just one word. I recommend this book to teenagers mostly because many kids can learn from this and understand what they can do to another person by starting rumors and calling them names.
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