She is in Mrs. Minish's fifth grade class.
He works as a tax accountant for a living. Almost everyone in the class bullies her.
This is not a sitcom.
Great Maudie - Jill and Kenny's great-aunt who moves in as nanny to the children while Mrs. Sandmeier is on vacation. Linda gives an oral class report about whales and is hence nicknamed "Blubber" by her peers. Then the tables turn on Jill and suddenly, its not funny any more. 2. He has been in the same class as Jill, Donna and Robby since kindergarten, this is his second year with Linda, and his first year with Wendy and Caroline. myCast is the place for you! She is an excellent student, smart, popular, and powerful, but uses her power to bully others and control her classmates. Near the end of the book, Caroline becomes best friends with Donna Davidson. And don't worry, when you go to your high school reunions, they'll get divorced and fat and have delinquent kids just as bad as they were. Judy Blume is the author of Blubber.
"Blubber" is a disturbing, but honest book. I thought this book was good over all because is showed what really goes on in school when the teacher isn't around and that you can't always trust your friends. He reports Jill and Tracy to their parents for putting rotten eggs in his mailbox on Halloween.
Tracy Wu — Jill's next-door neighbor and best friend. Mrs. Sandmeier - The Brenner family's Swiss-born housekeeper and nanny to Jill and Kenny. She dresses as a flenser for Halloween, instead of being a witch like she was for the last three years. 2. Join thousands of other users in fan casting your favorite stories. But Robby grabbed the note and before Linda... Read Full Overview, Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago. She is trilingual (part of her job is to teach Jill and Kenny to speak French) and an excellent cook.
She didn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on whales just then. Real life is like this book! The "trial" falls apart when Wendy, as judge, denies Linda her right to a "lawyer", and Jill, frustrated with herself for so readily following Wendy's lead, finally stands up to Wendy, who also arouses Jill's anger by making a racial slur against Tracy, who is Chinese-American. However, when she tries to laugh at their taunting, they even use that to make fun of her. What happens when teasing goes too far?
It's real life. Blubber is a novel by Judy Blume, first published in 1974.
Practice forgiveness, be good to others, and don't follow just because someone says so or because it's easy. There is no contrived happy ending or clear-cut victory for anyone. In the bathroom they made her take off most of her cloths and another time they made her eat chocolate covered ants. She is a hippie who practices yoga and forces health foods like "wheat germ mush" on the children. Describe Jill and Tracy’s friendship. What Are You Reading?
Part of this could be due to better parenting, as it's implied that Tracy's parents are much more hands-on and involved with their daughter than are Jill's (Mrs. Wu even has time to make Tracy's award-winning Halloween costume, while Jill's mother barely has time to, It's also possible that the character of Great Maudie may have been inspired by the title character of the sitcom. Near the end of the book, she becomes best friends with Wendy, but by the end, she is a loner again. However, she seems to grow and mature in ways Jill doesn't, as evidenced when she refuses to take part in Wendy's revenge plan because she's not convinced Linda was the one who tattled on her and Jill for their prank on Mr. Machinist. How is Tracy more perceptive about Wendy than Jill? 1. And you can go along with it like the followers in this book, or you can be the best person you can be and rise above.
At the very end she ends up becoming best friends with Laurie.
The class follows her name-calling and so does our protagonist Jill. She is in a different fifth grade class, and has a much better teacher who is always thinking up fun ways for his students to learn. Mrs. Sandmeier herself counts, as she can apparently, at age 58, take on fourth-grader Kenny and all of his friends in basketball and beat them single-handedly. The two girls at their desks snickering to themselves while Linda, the unsuspecting victim, is standing before the chalkboard pointing to the drawing of a whale that would dub her "Blubber".
Unlike many of Judy Blume's main characters, Jill h…
Wendy, a girl who likes to control the class begins to call Linda with a cruel name "Blubber". By coincidence, she runs into Jill at Warren Winkler's Bar Mitzvah, as her parents are also friends with the Winklers as are the Brenners.
There will be jealous comments, backstabbing, greed and ugliness.
As this is a kid's book, it turns it around and shows you what it's like when Jill suddenly becomes the victim. Also, at the end of the book she becomes good friends with a new girl in her class named Rochelle. How very sad.