Blubber
About this book
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.
Subjects
- adolescence, fiction
- bullying
- bullying, fiction
- children
- children's fiction
- chinese americans
- class presidents
- conduct of life
- conduct of life, fiction
- currency question
- fiction
- fifth grade (education)
- friendship
- girls
- girls, fiction
- girls & women
- hippies
- interpersonal conflict
- interpersonal relations, fiction
- jews
- juvenile fiction
- mock trials
- money
- obesity in children
- overweight
- overweight children
- peer pressure
- pranks
- schools
- schools, fiction
- social themes
- spanish language materials
- stamp collecting
- teasing
- yoga