The author, Wendelin Van Draanen is very good at writing with expression and makes you feel like you’re there. Each chapter told the same event, but from both the main characters’ points of view, which just pulled me in and never put me down! As the kids grow older, an unreturned adoration is flipped and holds you emotionally until the very last word. Wendelin Van Draanen so wonderfully expressed moments in the lives of kids and wrote it in a unique style. It was fun, captivating and easy to relate to. “With a charismatic leading lady kids will flip over, a compelling dynamic between the two narrators and a resonant ending, this novel is a great deal larger than the sum of its parts.Two girls in mother-daughter book clubs sent in their reviews of Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen.įlipped was a fabulous book that I genuinely enjoyed reading. A fast, funny, egg-cellent winner.” - SLJ, Starred review “Van Draanen has another winner in this eighth-grade ‘he-said, she-said’ romance. “We flipped over this fantastic book, its gutsy girl Juli and its wise, wonderful ending.” - The Chicago Tribune Winner of the California Young Reader Medal Honor winner, Judy Lopez Memorial Award/WNBA SLJ Top 100 Children’s Novels of all time The updated anniversary edition contains 32 pages of extra backmatter: essays from Wendelin Van Draanen on her sources of inspiration, on the making of the movie of Flipped, on why she’ll never write a sequel, and a selection of the amazing fan mail she’s received. This is a classic romantic comedy of errors told in alternating chapters by two fresh, funny voices.
Still walking around with my first kiss.” He says: “It’s been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort.” But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down: just as Bryce is thinking that there’s maybe more to Juli than meets the eye, she’s thinking that he’s not quite all he seemed. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy! This updated anniversary edition offers story-behind-the-story revelations from author Wendelin Van Draanen.
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