Posted
A Young Adult, Childrens, Realistic Fiction book. The power of words, the power of having a tribe,...
In middle school, words aren’t just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever.When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes—though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well.In the middle of this, a new girl named Rose arrives at school and sits at Frost’s lunch table. Rose is not like anyone else at Branton Middle School, and it’s clear that the close circle of friends Frost has made for himself won’t easily hold another. As the sticky-note war escalates, and the pressure to choose sides mounts, Frost...
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- Pages: 384 pages
- ISBN: 9780062338228 / 0
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The power of words, the power of having a tribe, loyalty. All of these themes are explored in this novel, which is about as accurate a portrayal of middle school life as I have seen. (I am a middle school teacher.). Not only were the characters well fleshed-out, the adults were portrayed realistically, and the author tucked in literary... This is a hard book to review. I loved Ms. Bixby and I had high expectations for this one. The concept was strong, the characters were solid... however it took a little too long in my mind to get to the meat of the story. By the end though it hit the gas and weaved through the stories trees coasting to a stop. A little disappointed... Certainly readable and touches on aspects of middle school friendship that Ms. Bixby didn't, but it's no Ms. Bixby. There are more key players in this book than in Ms. Bixby (though only one POV) but none of them are *people* the way Brand, Steve, Topher, and Ms. Bixby were. I felt this keenly in the beginning, but did warm up to this...
